Few people think that we should have to switch health insurers when we change jobs. So, I would like to see a health insurance system in which coverage stayed with each person wherever they worked. Repealing the exclusion of employer-financed health insurance would promote that goal. But it would threaten the only form of health insurance most nonaged adults have to day. Since we cannot agree on an alternative system, it would be rash to repeal the exclusion.
Similar problems exist with respect to the mortgage interest deduction.
As far as businesses are concerned, there are countless provisions that make little sense, but that we cannot now repeal because people have signed long-term contracts based on them. This system is feasible for perhaps 50 million filers. They have considerable power and influence. He also said that he would be proposing cuts in domestic spending that he never later explained or sent to Congress. Congess enacted the defense build-up.