Gimmicky Old Party | Commonweal magazine

Rick Perry's flat tax proposal will probably flatline like Steve Forbes plan did.  But E.J. Dionne sees it as a symptom of the Republican Party's loss of the boldness that brought us the interstate highway system. - GWC
Gimmicky Old Party | Commonweal magazine:
by E.J. Dionne
"It's one of the strangest things in our politics: The only "big" ideas Republicans and conservatives seem to offer these days revolve around novel and sometimes bizarre ways of cutting taxes on rich people. Given all the attention that Herman Cain's nonsensical and regressive 9-9-9 tax plan has received, the Republican debates should have as their soundtrack that old Beatles song that droned on about the number nine.

Now, Texas Gov. Rick Perry hopes to pump up his campaign with a supposedly bold proposal to institute a flat tax, which would also deliver more money to the well-off. Perry plans to outline his proposal this week, but has already touted it as a surefire way of "scrapping the 3 million words of the current tax code.""

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