North Dakota is cutting its income tax rates by about an eighth across the board. Corporate rates too. Think Governor Pawlenty knows the Maryland story?

I hope the governor is watching New Jersey, where a fight over a flat tax is going on in the Republican primary. I don't like the Lonegan proposal only because there should be a zero rate up to some income level. (As you might have told yesterday, I'm an old Hall-Rabushka supporter.) Governor Pawlenty, should he decide to run for a third term, could make fundamental reform -- one bracket, not three or four as the DFL proposed -- the cornerstone of the next campaign.

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