Brownback brought several
props. First, he showed the Internal Revenue Code, which he said
"should be taken behind a barn and killed with a dull axe."
Instead, Brownback said, people should be offered a choice: "Do you
want to stay with this code or do you want to go with a flat tax, one
rate, no exemptions, no deductions, no credits, that's it?" He
also showed off a piece of carpet which he obtained from
the Iowa Corngrowers Association. Brownback said that the piece
of carpet, made from corn, shows that when oil
prices reach high levels, starch can substitute for synthetic
petroleum-based fibers.
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