The government's financial stability law makes permanent a flat personal income tax, which the opposition says would tie the hands of future administrations.
Senator Mark Udall, Democrat of Colorado, said President Obama has pledged not to use the detention power for Americans, but "this is only binding on his administration, but that won't tie the hands of future administrations".
Kerry also lamented Trump's decision in his own statement, saying it "weakens our security, breaks America's word, isolates us from our European allies, puts Israel at greater risk, empowers Iran's hardliners, and reduces our global leverage to address Tehran's misbehavior, while damaging the ability of future Administrations to make international agreements".
In a letter to Mr. Clinton, 25 senators complained that his proposal would tie the hands of a future administration by letting Russia dictate changes in the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972.
Since it does not give a plausible scenario of how those hostilities could be considered over, it raises the possibility of endless detention for anyone who gets on the wrong side of a future administration.
"It actually enhances the flexibility of the future administration," the official said.
How did one of our great political parties become so ruthless, so willing to embrace scorched-earth tactics even if so doing undermines the ability of any future administration to govern?
Instead it is throwing its support behind a plan that the Energy Department and the auto industry have devised to develop hydrogen-based fuel cells to power the cars of the future, administration and industry officials said yesterday.
With the eurozone crisis deepening and the UK economy flailing, the government's timetable is likely to be pushed ever further into the future –any later than 2015, the GIB falls into the hands of a future administration which may never allow it to borrow.
"I shudder at the thought of any future administration's having to cope with another crisis hobbled by the constraints that we faced," writes Paulson.
