Daschlegate and protectionism
On Daschlegate, the real scandal is the tax code, stupid. The US system is foolishly complex. The land of the free is, paradoxically, the land of almost obessive inefficient form-filling bureaucracy. India could not do better.
If you read only one piece on the subject let it be this.
The big story is not tax though, it is health. The last three paragraphs of this piece suggest a whole lot of pain for the White House which Mr Daschle, uniquely, could have avoided.
Is it all over? There are rumblings and warnings that the Obama White House will ignore in the future at its peril.
These are nervous times for Obama backers at home and abroad too. The "Buy American" clause in the stimulus package would be a blow to governments around the world and Mr Obama's distancing of himself from this provision has been welcomed.
But the administration is playing with fire on protectionism, as this survey suggests.
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