It can be done. (Applause.) The tax code is full of loopholes.

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And France's 35-hour legislation is full of loopholes: employers and unions in the engineering sector recently agreed to increase overtime and average weekly work-hours over the whole year.

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Yet a third group wants a total reform of the U.S. tax code, a complex document of thousands of pages full of loopholes, exemptions and special breaks for special circumstances, which allow some colossal U.S. corporations to pay no tax at all.

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Likewise, the administration's declaration that it would not unleash nukes on non-weapons states that lived by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was criticised either for being unwise (because it curtailed deterrence against biological and chemical weapons), or misleading (because it is so full of loopholes that it does not curtail deterrence much at all).

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" The spokesman, Jihad Hadad, said it was "full of legal loopholes.

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