When you go from $20k to $12k, you go from poor to homeless.

That's the second time you've used those numbers, so I'll call you on it. When has anyone proposed anything close to a 40% flat tax with a zero exclusion (i.e. starting at the first dollar of income)?

IIRC, Steve Forbes called for 17% with a $30K exclusion (for a family of four?). I believe Dick Armey's numbers were in the same ballpark.

--John