Rating the cadidates on taxes

Robert Novak:

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GIULIANI gets the highest rating from Americans for Tax Reform of all Republican candidates, with a perfect score on his tax-cut intentions.

Sen. John McCain gets the worst marks of GOP candidates by refusing to take a no-tax-increase pledge, advocating a 15 percent estate tax rather than total repeal and failing to advocate an alternative system of taxation, new capital gains tax cuts and a cut in the corporate rate.

Romney also fails on the alternative system and capital-gains cuts, as well as not advocating total repeal of the alternative minimum tax. Huckabee falls short on the AMT and capital gains and corporate rates.

A footnote: The three leading Democratic candidates - Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards - all get a goose egg from the ATR by failing on all its issues.


Novak does not mention Thompson, but he is pretty close to Giuliani on the tax issue. McCain has come out for maintaining the Bush cuts. I guess its his mea culpa on the issue since he opposed them when they were passed. It is sort of like his recent realization that he can't get "a path to citizenship" before we demonstrate commitment to protecting the border. I am not sure this wisdom would have penetrated were he not in the race for the Presidency. Wa\hat is clear from the post is that all the Democrats are wrong on the issue.

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