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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (168)5/1/2003 8:58:20 PM
From: JohnM  Respond to of 794373
 
I believe this is known as Steve Forbes flat tax proposal.

Good reply. But Forbes' proposal is going absolutely nowhere because too many different powerful groups have too large a stake in the present loophole structure. So lowering the rate for dividends to that of capital gains just adds one more item of "unfairness."