He gives seminars on cutting burdens out of life, and flies around training a new girl at his firm in exactly how he practices the art of letting people down gently.
There is no firm evidence generalised tax cuts are a panacea for recession, but cutting the burden through tax credit increases will support the economy where need is greatest, spending is immediate and every pound works its hardest before being siphoned out of circulation.
In his speech this week Mr Brown boasted of "cutting the burden of tax and red tape".
For Italy's new government, which will be judged by voters mainly on whether it can kick-start growth and create more jobs, cutting the burden on employers should be a clear priority.
To drive home the point, speakers included a Hispanic small-business owner, Hector Barreto, who spoke of how Mr. Bush would help entrepreneurs by cutting the burden of taxation and regulation, and Kim Jennings, a single mother, who discussed how the tax plan would help her edge toward the middle class.
Re-skilling Britain may be a worthy objective, but it's more likely to be achieved by officials and politicians butting out, cutting the burden of regulation and taxation, and letting business people get on with the wealth-creation job that they know far better than any government ever will.
For Italy's new government, which will be judged by voters mainly on whether it can kick-start growth and create more jobs, cutting the burden on employers should be a clear priority.Much deeper tax reform in Europe is needed than that suggested at present.
This will prolong the life of a treaty that imposes no emissions-cutting burden on any developing country.
Developed countries need to raise their game, while major developing countries must take on more of the carbon-cutting burden in ways appropriate to their circumstances.
That will prolong the shelf-life of a treaty that imposes no emissions-cutting burden on any developing country.In return, all countries have agreed to negotiate a new mitigation regime by 2015 and make it operational by 2020.
The Kyoto treaty runs out at the end of 2012 and the developing nations, led by China and India, wanted it renewed, while developed countries, including Britain and the rest of the EU, want a completely new treaty to share out the carbon-cutting burden.
