Posted: Oct 11, 2005 By: Ken Hoagland

Subject: Keystone cops and tax reform

Comment: Cap health benefits payments and mortgage deductions? That's it? A fine example of the Washington kabuki dance designed from the beginning to protect the corrupt Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees. You are playing with a stacked deck, of course, in the finest traditions of do-nothing but make it sound like a lot Washington panels. Guess what fellows? You are about to issue the best possible rallying cry for getting rid of incumbents. Hope you can trade enough tax breaks for campaign dollars because your friends are going to need them. Reform--hardly. More like a keystone cops exercise which counts on the stupidity of the population. You are in for a well deserved surprise.