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The problem with promising to close loopholes is that it is virtually impossible to accomplish. There isn't a city council in the nation that, if it could set a tax rate for everyone, every corporation, every retired veteran, all at the same rate, wouldn't be besieged by the community's interest groups and rapidly find that loopholes were the way to go. Trying to do this on a national scale would be daunting, and I suspect that those elected even on promises of strict economics would find keeping those promises impossible.