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-In most cases were both parents work, it's because they want to, not because they have to. If they're center-middle class or higher and both HAVE to work it's because they're leading a lifestyle of excess spending.
-In the cases where both parents have to work to meet ends or keep their lifestyle, regardless of class, it would take far more than a tax break to make them stay from work. Oh, you're giving them back 15% of their income. Great. However, how much do you think that the lesser-earning parent makes up of the household income, 30-40%? Where are you going to come up with the remaining 15-25% of their income, grundle???
-The only ones who would benefit from your massive tax break are the rich, who don't need it.
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Going away from a discussion with grundle, and talking to
the general public, I'm voting for Gore because he's the
least bad among the terrible. W Bush is an idiot, a puppet,
an incompetent, and would occupy a place among the country's
worst 10 presidents. Buchanan would lead the country
straight into the next century - only that Buchanan is such
a retrograde that that would mean the 15th century. Nader
has a mixed bag of good ideas and ideas that would only work
in a parallel universe, and is far from being complete.
Browne is one of those people who give libertarians a bad
name (is he still running?).
As for Gore, I expect him to have a carbon copy of the Clinton administration (unless there's a different Congress). That's not ideal, but it's decent...
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