>I was thinking today that if Bush and Co. wanted to give working
>Americans a break, it shouldn't be a tax cut rather a Jubilee-style
>purging of everybody's credit reports.
A useful substitute is personal bankruptcy. We're on track for 1.7 million filings this year in the U.S., twice as many as 1995, and five times as many as 1985. I should say, before Justin chastises me for giving legal advice, consult a lawyer first. But generally it's a damned good deal.
Doug