would see they don't have all the deductions and wiggle room and would be in the same position as everyone else. john: when you talk about the flat tax you talk about getting rid of deductions and just keep charity and mortgage interest deduction. >> everything else is gone. if you would design a system that would allow maximum corruption, maximum lobbying efforts and fund-raising in washington you created a system just like we have for it is so complex, we have got to fix it. it cannot keep going like this. >> that the complication is with the stupid deductions and exceptions of graduated progressive tax rate is not that complicated. >> the way the wealthy have not been fighting so hard against the progressive right is they have the