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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (3695)	8/20/1999 1:23:00 PM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 769667

<< But in general, tax simplification is very necessary and I don't see anybody proposing it except forbes. >> I don't think that Forbes has a very good plan. The slogan "flat tax" is only a hollow slogan. Our economic system is too complicated for a "simple" flat tax. What would happen, if anything got off the ground (which I doubt) would be a simple flat tax plan. Then someone would add an exception to the flat tax. Then some other special interest group would add another exception. Before long the flat tax would grow into another monster. They need to take the current tax system and simplify it, which could be done if we had someone in Washington with half a brain.