Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Keep it simple, but not too simple. Steve Forbes was put on the political map by his flat tax. He was taken off by it too. Filing on a postcard lost its allure once the middle class realized the 36% bracket would benefit first and most and, in the meantime, it would be goodbye home-mortgage deduction...
Though he has run under various parties' banners over the years, Newkirk considers himself a friend of the blue-collar worker. He favors a flat tax and opposes gun control, but his burning issue is freeing up Oregon land for economic development...
Ravotti supports a flat tax, lower taxes on savings and investments, abolishing high congressional pensions, and an "America first" foreign policy. He calls his agenda "mainstream conservatism," but in the 14th, where Democrats dominate more than 6 to 1, mainstream may look more like minority. Ravotti admits he is the underdog but hopes an aggressive campaign and knocking on thousands of doors will win over liberal constituents...
...Armey is a professor who started as a political outsider and finds himself at the center of the inside--House Majority Leader. Armey was one of the architects of the Contract with America and embodies the conservatism that brought about the Republican revolution: he's for free markets and flat taxes and against national health care, defense cuts, abortion rights and the National Endowment for the Arts...
Zevgolis, one of 13 children of immigrant parents, has lived in Hopewell for 55 years. Though he has been active in local politics, Zevgolis, a proponent of a flat tax, has much less name recognition than his opponent, the seven-term incumbent who defeated him four years...