My 5-Point Plan Makes 9-9-9 Look Complicated: Caroline Baum

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Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama has a jobsplan, in case anyone has been off the planet for the past month.House Republicans now have a jobs plan. Each of the presidentialcandidates has some kind of employment blueprint.

Members of Congress have a bipartisan jobs plan: to keeptheir seats. Even Washington lobbyists have one, which is toensure that the grotesque, 72,536-page tax code doesn’tsacrifice a single line of print. After all, without it theymight have to return to the dreary practice of law.