The Flat Tax Is Back.
The New York Times| March 29, 2007
Rudolph W. Giuliani accepted the endorsement of Steve Forbes yesterday and embraced Mr. Forbes’s signature issue, saying he liked the idea of a flat tax — something Mr. Giuliani denounced when Mr. Forbes was running for president.
If there were no federal income tax, "maybe I’d suggest not doing it at all, but if we were going to do it, a flat tax would make a lot of sense," Mr. Giuliani, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, said yesterday, standing beside Mr. Forbes at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square in New York.
How things change...
In 1996, when Mr. Forbes first ran for president, Mr. Giuliani, then the mayor of New York City, disparaged a flat tax in general and Mr. Forbes’s plan in particular. "You're giving them more authority, more autonomy, and you’re giving them less resources to deal with the problems," he said then in an interview with CBS, calling the proposal "a mistake."
He used stronger language on CNN a few days later, saying the Forbes plan "would really be a disaster."
Eleven years later, Mr. Giuliani is the one running for president, and with a record on social issues to the left of most Republicans, he has been trying to appeal to fiscal conservatives. In those circles, the word of Mr. Forbes, the magazine executive who also ran for president in 2000, carries considerable weight.
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