Not content with the elements of freak-show conservatism in his acceptance speech or the flattening effect of Dubya’s giveaways to the rich in recent years, Dubya is now threatening an official flat tax (not unlike the one imposed by fiat on Iraq last November.) As even Phil Gramm attested eight years ago, “It’s not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with their capital ought not to.”