Lamar Alexander On the Flat Tax In 1996: “[I]t would be a disaster for America”

By Kleinheider Posted on April 21, 2008 at 9:57 am

Tom Humphrey points out that Lamar Alexander’s recent embrace of a flat income tax goes against his previous stances on the issue:

During an unsuccessful campaign for president in 1996, Alexander was quoted as calling the flat-tax proposal advanced by Steve Forbes “a nutty idea.”

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