interesting comments, as most of them reflect my own thinking on things. only two exceptions

first, if you don't hold the feet of the bean counters who run detroit to the fire, they will do as little engineering as they can Boehlert thinks so, and he's righton this

second, on taxes. actually, if we could do a CATS type plan (and I'm pretty sure that unlike many here you won't mistake this for anything having to do with access to space) it would be nice. but in the real world it ain't gonna happen. given what we face, tax cuts solely to the lowest brackets is the best option available. i don't know if there's any death penalties left on the transfer of family farms and family businesses, but if there are, let's get rid of them now.

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