Nashua Telegraph
RAN 2/1
By KEVIN LANDRIGAN
Telegraph Staff
 CONCORD Republican presidential candidate Morry Taylor said Wednesday
that the rest of the GOP field reminds him of disgraced, television
evangelist Jimmy Baker.
 Both have a good story to tell, but the punch line wound up being
very expensive for their followers, Taylor said in his address to the New
Hampshire Legislature. 
 "There was someone else (other than the candidates) who gave you a
vision. It was the Jimmy and Tammy Faye Baker program, remember," Taylor
quipped. 
 "It sounded nice, but they turned around and took your money." 
 Taylor outlined his prescription for balancing the budget and tossed
some barbs at the other multimillionaire in the race, magazine publisher
Steve Forbes. 
 A self-made industrialist, Taylor said the Forbes flat tax of 17 percent
would have allowed him to gain a $15 million stock sale profit tax-free
because the Forbes plan does not tax "unearned income." 
 "I can appreciate his grandfather told him to be cheap, but even the
queen of England has to pay taxes," Taylor said. 
 The Taylor tax reform plan includes a shift from five tax brackets to
three -  2 percent for those earning less than $20,000 a year, 10
percent up to $35,000 and 17 percent for all income above that amount.
 "I think everyone should at least pay something," Taylor said. 
 If elected, Taylor claimed he could balance the budget by cutting the
federal bureaucracy by one third and referred to companies his tire
company bought as it grew through the 1980s. 
 "All the companies Titon bought had either been closed, bankrupt,
whatever. And in every one of them, the chief executive said, `It's not my
fault,'" Taylor said. 
 "I have seen what bad management does, and look at our government and
that's what you've got." 
 Conservaitve media commentator Patrick Buchanan is scheduled to speak
to the joint session of the House of Representatives and state Senate
today. 



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