81.   A number of the businessmen said they favored a flat tax.

82.   A true flat tax is, by contrast, based on the notion that taxes are not an appropriate lever to influence individual behavior.

83.   A Republican-appointed commission urged Wednesday that the federal tax system be dumped in favor of a flat tax.

84.   A simple form that would be created by the flat tax would eliminate the need for almost all of these people.

85.   A. Under most flat tax proposals, pensions would be taxed as income.

86.   A true flat tax -- one tax rate for all income levels -- would significantly lower the tax bill of Americans with high incomes.

87.   A truly flat tax would also eliminate deductions, including the enormously popular home mortgage interest deduction, along with loopholes.

88.   A. A key principle of most flat tax proposals is that all income be taxed, but only once.

89.   A. Most flat tax proposals, including the one sponsored by Armey, would eliminate the home mortgage interest deduction.

90.   A. Most flat tax proposals reform the corporate income tax as well as the personal income tax.