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Just to set the record straight (as Richard Nixon once said), John Anderson never proposed a flat income tax when he ran for President as a Republican and then independent in 1980. He did propose a gas tax coupled with a reduction in Social Security taxes, which the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Economics (University of Pennsylvania Professor Lawrence Klein said would have positive economic benefit for the nation by reducing unnecessary consumption. I get this information from an excellent book on that campaign, No Holding Back: the 1980 John B. Anderson Presidential Campaign, published by University press of America. Rhode Island was one of Anderson's best states.