Dan gave me credit for this the other day, but I'll take some myself if that's OK with you.
He remembers from his days as my syndicate editor that I was talking a decade ago about the need to repeal the tax on repatriated profits. It wasn't a hot topic of conversation at the time. There weren't a lot of pundits or politicians talking about it.
But business people knew what it was, and they knew how much it was holding back the U.S. economy's growth potential.