First, it had its own loopholes.
By closing its own loopholes, Washington could threaten Ireland's status as European hub for multinationals, and economists said it would be better for Ireland to act first.
This hike was supposed to push the fleet average to 35 mpg by 2020, but it included its own loopholes.
A man who was until two weeks ago exhorting the country to ever greater sacrifices in order to repair the economy has been found to have his own personal loophole to evade those very same sacrifices.
The proposal also happens to add its own new loopholes and subsidies, most prominently for manufacturing companies.
So what about closing America's own gun show loophole?
MOST college coaches have no legal expertise beyond their own income-tax loopholes, but there is a distinct Perry Mason complex oozing from the powerful and the paranoid these days.
"While the Chinese government is starting to eliminate some of the most destructive fishing practices in its own waters, the loopholes in existing policies lead to a double standard in Africa," Ahmed Diame, a Greenpeace Africa ocean campaigner, said in a statement.
China is not so much the problem as our own corporate tax loopholes are the problem.
