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If you lead with an issue, lead like you have conviction, you can get peoples attention. Its amazing. Thats why sometimes i shouldnt say this on the air i fantasize that maybe joe shoot all the Political Consultants because they dont understand how you get a message across in a way that the American People can grasp and say, yes, this is the way we should go. Host you have been talking about the flat tax for a long time. Your second book what flat texas resolution. Your moe recent book is reviving america. What is a flat tax. Guest it takes the current code, get rid of it. A couple years ago the taxwriting committee in congress, tried to rationalize the current code. The bill came in at 997 pages, which tells you all you need to know. So bury the tax code but the epa may not allow it, its so tox. But throw away the code, put in a sinkle rate. We friend the book 17 . General his exemptions for adults and children, nobody gets a tax increase in this thing. For example, a family of four,
That resulted in 122,000 american casualties, how political and Business Leaders are using Digital Networks and the executive director of the author on how they represent authors. Thats just a few of the authors on book tv this weekend for a tweet television schedule, booktv. Org, book tv, 24 hours of nonfiction authors, television for serious readers. Steve forbes appeared last week indepth program, the editor in chief has rung twice for president as the United States and his most recent book, reviving america. Host steve forbes, are the issues you talk about and write about, are they being discussed, you think in this election . Guest actually not the way they should be. In many ways this is the most contentfree campaign weve had in decades. Take the republican side, most of the caund candidates have nice position papers but how many led like i did with flat tax. Whatever you think of donald trump, he led with a diagnosis, prescription and diagnosis, he put it out there and what is a
Guest it takes the current code, get rid of it. A couple years ago the taxwriting committee in they put together after several efforts, a bill to try to rationalize the current code. It tells you all you need to know. You were to put in a single rate. We recommend 17 . Generous exemptions so nobody gets a tax increase. For example, a family of four, the first 52800 of salary is free from federal income tax. No tax in your savings. Same thing on the corporate side. Knock the rate down to 17 . You will have immediate, you would only pay . 17 on the dollar. You could literally do your tax return on us single sheet of paper. By the way, 40 jurisdictions around the world have variations of the flat tax. How has it worked . Its worked very well. Not only will it create more but its much easier to administer and collects. Tax evasion becomes more difficult. One of the complaints we havm about our system is that not everybody pays taxes. You believe everybody should pay taxes . On i take a lit
Schedule. 8 at 7 begins now. Good evening. Winter haven police are on the hunt for a violent carjacker. Investigators say the man held a shotgun to a womans head. Chip osowski joins us live. In custody, right . Right, jen. This went down early yesterday morning in this winter haven walgreens parking lot of the told me she stopped here a number of times in the past and had no reason to believe she wasnt safe. Its a well lit parking lot at a 24hour walgreens. A surveillance camera captured hunter pulling into a space. She is texting her son she will be home soon. You can see a man walking back and forth on the video. Then the unthinkable happens. And i went to put my phone back into my pictures to get and thats when my door was jacked open. It was pulled open and he says, get in so many words, get out of the car. I couldnt believe it was happening. And he was waving the gun around. He says get out now. Reporter hunter didnt want her face shown because the gunman is still out there. Polic