[lbo-talk] Flogging a Dead Horse (was Hitch: Stay Strong)

[Luke Weiger]

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From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Flogging a Dead Horse (was Hitch: Stay Strong)


> I think I've mentioned this before, but after a Jerry Brown rally in 
> NYC in 1992 (at which the Ramones performed, and during which Joey 
> said "I never fucking voted in my fucking life but I'm fucking voting 
> for fucking Jerry Brown, man!"), I stepped into a nearby bar and ran 
> into CH, Andy Kopkind, Mike Tomasky, and a few other Nation types. 
> I'd been fighting with Alexander Cockburn over Brown's Laffer-devised 
> flat tax + VAT scheme, 

Why would any progressive favor such a tax system?

-- Luke