Reply #86: Dean will declare his detailed tax plan later. We can evaluate it then.

[stickdog]

Regardless of its details, it will be a HUGE step in the right direction.

The same holds true for Dean's less than perfect universal healthcare initiative. A HUGE step in the right direction, and politically viable.

Getting the FDA to study pot's efficacy as a medicine would also be a HUGE step in the right direction -- as well as being a politically viable strategy to finally decriminalize the stuff.

In terms of defense spending, no Democrat is going to sniff victory this election by campaigning to rein in defense spending. However, you can trust that a skinflint like Dean -- who drives a beater and darns his socks -- isn't going to lose 3 trillion dollars into the well lined pockets of US defense contractors (read: Bush's best friends and Dean's worst enemies). And just that fact that he's not going to get us into ridiculous warmongering quagmires will save a few hundred billion.

But have fun Nadering for the status quo. I'm all for Kucinich. I'm not Kucinich's adversary -- reality is.