Posted: Oct 20, 2005 By: Louis DeBroux

Subject: preliminary reports

Comment: Can this possibly be true? After all of these months of deliberation, the best that can be delivered is cutting the mortgage interest exemption and taxing employer health care benefits? Are you kidding me? An 8th grade civics class can come up with better than that. Please explain why the FairTax is not being considered. It reduces compliance costs, taxes the underground economies and is fair to every citizen. What's the problem with that?