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From a Business Week interview, Rudy Giuliani on Iraq, Taxes, Mistakes:

You recently picked up Steve Forbes, who is a flat-tax advocate, as an adviser. Do you also support a flat tax?

Rudy: I support simplifying the tax code. I think of the flat tax as theoretically a very good solution—and probably what we should have done when we first started the income tax. These days it would be unrealistic to go all the way to a flat tax. But you can use it as a guide to figure out how you're going to simplify taxes.

Thanks for noting it Beagle8U, this was a case where I had fallen for the pro-rudy postings and thought Rudy had endorsed the flat tax. I don't know why I keep making that mistake.

“These days it would be unrealistic to go all the way to a flat tax. But you can use it as a guide to figure out how you’re going to simplify taxes.”

Rudy G

I’m unclear where this is bad. After the current crews energy bill...farm bill and highway bill which added untold pages to the tax system and subsidized wealthy conglomerates like ADM and Cargill for boondoggles like ethanol ...using the flat tax as a model is a bad thing?

He’s acknowledging the truth...you could never fully implement it. But at least he’s working on it. Geeez hit him on social issues but give him some credit for doing something good

Well, I’ll post it for you just as I’ve posted it many times before for those that wont read it.( Rooty Tooters)

Giuliani on Flat Tax: Just Kidding
FILE UNDER: Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani, fresh off winning the endorsement of Steve Forbes, now says he was just kidding when he said he thought the flat tax was a good idea.

“I didn’t favor it, I said something academic,” Giuliani said at a press conference in Florida on Saturday, in response to a reporter asking him why he had switched from opposing a flat tax to favoring it. “What I said was, and it was not a joke, but it was half-jocular, was if we didn’t have an income tax...what would I favor?

“First I would favor no tax,” he said laughing and turning to his wife Judith, who duly smiled back. “That would be my first position. My second position would probably be a flat tax.”

But, he said, the tax “would probably not be feasible.”

Someone should tell Forbes.

—Jason Horowitz

http://thepoliticker.observer.com/2007/04/giuliani-on-flat-tax-just-kidding.html#comments

I hope that puts it to rest for the Rooty Rooters that claim that liberal POS is for the flat tax. He isn’t and never was!