Fred Answers Your My Question, Part 1
Look, look, look, LOOK!
A few weeks ago Captain Ed offered up a place for us to ask questions to Fred Thompson, he of the presidential aspirations. I decided to drop some madd political-type verbiage on the F-T man. Needless, so say, I didn’t expect anything to come from it… but then, today, I followed this link from Instanpundit to Fred’s site… and it was my question he answered.
The Fred Thompson campaign has begun answering questions from Captain’s Quarters readers as well as those of other blogs. In the first response, Senator Thompson answers this question on tax policy, submitted by Dan J on 9/5:
Our tax code is overly complex and it seems people spend more time and money finding loopholes or for compliance than anything else. Several options have been floated for reform. Two that interest me are the Flat Tax and The FairTax Act (HR 25, S 1025). Between the Flat and Fair tax, which do you feel would have a better chance or being enacted and would a Thompson administration make reforming–not applying Band-Aids or allowing more bad re-writes of the same terrible rules–the tax code a priority ?
Here’s the answer:
At this point, I’d like to point you back to Captain Ed for more follow-up and to thank him for giving us a forum where things like the above are possible… you know, real people asking real questions of our candidates. It rocks.