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Good old Mickey Kaus

Good old Mickey Kaus. You love him, you hate him, you can’t fit him in a bread box:

“Suppose we had a flat tax. Unless it was written into the Constitution, what’s to prevent a Clinton-like Democrat from coming along and proposing to raise taxes on just the top 2 percent?” [Emphasis is all Mickey's.--ed. No kidding!]

I’m just left to ask, is this anything like a Bush-like Republican proposing to raise taxes on just the bottom 2 percent?

Having once voted for Jerry Brown (yep, believe it, it’s true), I admit to a certain fondness to flat tax plans. But now that I know Grover Norquist has the hots for them, I’ll have to rethink my fiscal desires. It’s one of those friend of my friend must be my enemy sort of things.