Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DURHAM, N.H.--Republican Presidential hopeful M. Steve Forbes used campaign stops in New Hampshire Saturday to clarify questions about the flat tax, the issue that has propelled him from a virtual unknown to the front-running candidate in the latest polls...
After announcing that he would "speak slowly for our friends in Washington," the multi-millionaire publishing executive devoted much of his speech to responding to criticisms of the flat...
Forbes vehemently defended the flat tax against a Dole campaign ad that charges that Forbes' plan would raise taxes on middle-class Americans by $2,000 and would result in a $180 billion revenue loss...
Although Forbes has previously acknowledged that replacing the current tax code with a 17 percent flat tax could diminish receipts by $40 billion, he maintained that the proposal would actually increase revenue because lower rates would encourage Americans to work harder and save more money...
...friends in Washington know that the flat tax strikes at the heart of their power," Forbes said, "and so they are throwing everything they can at the flat...