I have a very strong view, having pressed for this legislation since March of 1995, the so-called postage card flat tax, devised by two very distinguished professors from Stanford, Hall and Rabushka, that really this is the way we ought to go on legislation on taxation.
Discussing the flat tax proposal during Senate floor debate.
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