I do not yet know much about President Bush's plan for health care, but when I see the words "tax deduction" I also tend to see red. I haven't had occasion to take a tax deduction in almost a quarter of a century — the standard deduction covers everything, and considerably more, than any other deductions I might take would. I wonder how many of the people in this country who have no health care can say the same. A tax deduction is not going to help such people in the least.
"Tax credit," now, there are words to live by. But they don't seem to be in the President's vocabulary.