‘Centerpiece’ of Bush’s Second Term: Rolling Back the First Term

Mike Allen’s latest piece for Time magazine includes the following about the next possible “centerpiece” of the Bush agenda:

At the White House, aides are meeting every day to work out a new agenda. A possible centerpiece is a road show next year to promote a plan for simplifying the million-plus words of the tax code, one of Bush’s most reliable applause winners on the stump in 2004.

In other words, Bush’s next Big Idea is to roll back all the additions to the tax code that he made in his first term:

During [Bush's] term in office, there have been 227 tax-code changes that added 10,000 pages to the monstrosity known as the tax code.