Flat tax

That's really what we need to focus on.

Well, I want to focus in the last minute that we have with somebody that Steve and I talked about on Varney yesterday, but Art Laffer, you should be very proud that one of our own, one of the original supply-siders, the guy who's very much known with Al Rabushka as one of the godfathers of the flat tax, which of course is part of, they took your Laffer curve and turned it into a flat tax.

And it was a brilliant part.

He just got Robert Hall.

It was Hall and Rabushka.

Robert Hall just got the Nobel Prize for economics.

Now, it wasn't specifically for the flat tax.

We should mention it was for something else.

At the moment, I'm the only pro-choice candidate in the field.

Um, I think that Colin Powell would fit in very well with my ideas on a flat tax, with my ideas on law enforcement.

Uh, he's a strong law and order man.

I am the only candidate running with hands-on experience as a former, uh, district attorney.

Can I pick up on what, uh, Steve Forbes has said?

Yeah.

Larry, I've introduced the flat tax.

Here's a tax return under an Arlen Specter presidency and an Arlen Specter flat tax.

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I would certainly run on his, uh, flat tax platform.

More about that later.

He will eliminate a graduated income tax, a progressive income tax-

Do, do-

Have a flat tax and-

Do, do away with the whole thing and start all over again.

And I think the American people are in a mood for it in this post-Cold War world-