[roses of sharon]

Instead of just opinion, how about some Campaign info.

http://www.atr.org/content/pdf/2008/jan/010908pr-rudyplus.pdf

01/09/08 Americans For Tax Reform:Rudy Giuliani Tax Cut Plan the Biggest in History and Most Pro-Growth in GOP Presidential Field

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070901faessay86501/rudolph-giuliani/toward-a-realistic-peace.html

For anyone interested in the actually white papers on the campaigns, Foreign Affairs has all the candidates essays, and all conservative tax groups has the candidates papers.

[K-oneTexas]

Rudy has proposed the biggest tax cuts in history. Ain't gonna happen ... just a way to get voters to him. Tax cuts are not Tax Reform and Tax Reform is what is needed. Tax Reform and Spending Reform (read 'PORK').

His plan does repeal the 'Death Tax' and eventually (I'm not holding my breath) repeals the AMT. It retains the tax on capital gains and dividend. Then still taxes income just at a lower rate.
Rudy can talk about it, he can propose it as President and send his 'Bill' to Congress ... Congress, no matter what's is eventual makeup will "correct it" to make their mark.

"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government." ~ Barry Goldwater

"It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income." ~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac


“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.” ~ Plato

“The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.” ~ Will Rodgers

“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.” ~ Alan Keys

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"The Tenth Amendment is the foundation of the Constitution." ~ Thomas Jefferson ["The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Refers back to Alan Keys]

"The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws." ~ Cornelius Tacitus

"It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. ..." ~ Alexander Hamilton

For me - Abolish the Income Tax --- don't tinker with it!.