I needed to check that to see if it was true. It's not: but the truth is even more strange than either of us knew. Nader supported the flat tax in 2000, not Bush or Gore.

The only reason I could see for this is that the current Federal tax system as it is in practice is strongly regressive. As that old commie agitator Warren Buffet likes to point out, he pays about 1/2 the rate his secretary pays on his income. So a flat tax would be an improvement on that.

What neither does is correct for the power law distribution of wealth and it's effect on the stability of our political/economic systems.

I actually meant to say Dole. Four-letter dyslexia.

But that's class warfare!

...says the side of the war that's already won and is pissing on the ashes as our infrastructure crumbles.

I know right? He's just trying to save America by keeping the poor in a holding pattern that will eventually eradicate them and anyone else that can't keep pace with higher skill sets needed for jobs or budget correctly for an ever increasing cost of living! Any other idea would surely bring about the tearing of the fabric of our flag and the bible, which the founding fathers wouldn't stand for, and that my friend is why those thoughts are illegal, because this isn't Afghanistan where they have Muslims and football means soccer, this is the most free land in whole wide world!