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Fabs, I agree that the flat tax idea is one of those simple things that sound great, but is unworkable.
Just for the record, I've never heard a Democratic party candidate advocate the flat tax- it's been raised in Republican primary races, to my knowledge. Steve Forbes made it a cornerstone of his campaign platform a few years back, and now Mike Huckabee's talking about it.
In my earlier post about the flat tax, the 17% and 33-34 % figure I quoted were only for federal income tax, not all the other local and state taxes we pay. Sorry I wasn't clear about that.
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