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One of the Democrats' favorite lines is about how the Iraqi people are getting free health care, but the American people don't. Well, what I want to know is, why can't we get a flat 15% tax, if they can?
I'm all ready to join a Bremer for President campaign.
Posted by Rand Simberg at November 01, 2003 03:57 PM
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Please...Can't Bremer be our dictator for just five minutes?
Excerpt: This is really good news for Iraq: The flat tax, long a dream of economic conservatives, is finally getting its day -- not in the United States, but in Iraq. It took L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Baghdad,...
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Yeah to AZ, the only state to support Forbes. I wonder how they can describe the flat tax as a gift to the rich, when it explicitly eliminates all taxes for anyone under a specified income (perhaps a third of the population?)
It would have been exactly what Forbes said it was, a power shift away from central government.
Posted by Ken Anthony at November 3, 2003 07:23 AM
All I can say is I am SO jealous. The Russians got a flat tax, the Iraqis are getting a flat tax, and we've got 9 presidential candidates hollering about how we need to raise taxes...
Posted by Celeste at November 3, 2003 09:16 AM
I wouldn't mind haveing a full auto AK-47 just like most Iraqi farmers :-)
Posted by Ryan at November 3, 2003 11:50 AM
Yeah, and let's have 70 percent unemployment like the Iraqis, too!
Posted by tdent at November 5, 2003 08:12 AM
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