Dueling Fools Duel Flashback
The Flat Tax

September 6, 2000

Fix-a-Flat Tax? The simplicity of the Flat Tax proposition might make sense, but is it equitable? Two Fools took the topic up for discussion back in March. Bill Mann (TMF Otter) and Shannon Zimmerman (TMF Zman) were our Dueling Fools.

No W's and L's to hand out this week. Let's just take a look back this time to explore a topic that produced one of the more heated debates in our Discussion Board.

Revisit the Flat Tax Duel.

Dueling Fools Standings

Bill Mann (TMF Otter)               2-0
Selena Maranjian (TMF Selena)       1-0
David Marino-Nachison (TMF Braden)  3-1
Yi-Hsin Chang (TMF Puck)            7-3
Voting Fools                       56-33
Chris Rugaber (TMF RFK)             7-5
Guest Duelists                     19-15
Bill Barker (TMF Max)               9-9
Jeff Fischer (TMF Jeff)             4-4
Richard McCaffery (TMF Gibson)      1-1
Paul Larson (TMF Parlay)           17-18
Rick Munarriz (TMF Edible)         19-22
Warren Gump (TMF Gump)              2-3
David Forrest (TMF Bogey)           3-5
Brian Graney (TMF Panic)            1-2
Barbara Bayer (TMF Venus)           0-2
Matt Richey (TMF Verve)             0-2

 Dueling Fools

  • Introduction
  • The Bull Argument
  • The Bear Argument
  • The Bull Rebuttal
  • The Bear Rebuttal
  • Vote Results
  • Flashback: The Flat Tax

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