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>> oh, sorry, paul begala. everyone's voices sound the same. but chris coons -- okay. chris coons was unable to mention the five enumerated rights in the first amendment in this debate. no one's discussing that at all and you would think someone running for senate the first amendment, that's an easy. that's a gimme, that's stuff everybody learned in seventh and eighth grade. if we're going to have the same standard applying to christine o'donnell it needs to be applicable to chris coons as well. >> fair point. everybody has to be judged by the same standard. you know, it's hard to evaluate som...

And the 16th amendment is the federal income tax, obviously a pretty big topic. i'm sure most of us get confused on which amendment is which, i certainly do. but most of us aren't running for senate and most of us don't claim to be constitutional experts as christine o'donnell has come close to doing just that. listen. >> what responsibilities or experiences in jobs and past activities do you feel qualify you to be a senator? >> well, for one i have a graduate fellowship from the claremont institute in constitutional government and that is a deep analysis of the constitution that has helped me...

Tried. >> i know but estonia and lithuania -- >> let me bring in tara. this isn't necessarily that crazy of an idea. representative john lindher has 64 cosponsors for this. he introduced legislation, and that is a record for cosponsors on his side. >> actually, congressman lindher has been introducing this legislation since 1999. and since 1999, he has failed to get the amount of support needed to bring it forward. i'm not here to argue that we don't need to simplify the tax code. albert einstein famously said the hardest thing to understand is the tax code. but i think the problem with the fa...

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Chapter one, repeal the 16th amendment allows taxation of income. >> david: that sounds good. >> two, 20% flat national sales tax. flat enough for you, steve? >> david: steve? >> it's utopia, what government will do to keep the tax and add 20% flat tax. that's what europeans do. they made it a laggard economy. increased deficideficit. we want to do it here? >> david: stephen, only if we want to be like europe should we do this. >> the v.a.t. is fair. in europe, people don't jealously look across the line saying he pays taxes, i don't. everybody pays it. >> david: they have aristocracies in eur...