If recent developments in Slovakia and Slovenia are any guide, it seems that as the economies of east-central Europe converge with the EU15, so too will the transition region's attitude towards flat-rate taxation.

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"Their attitude is that we don't get it, we are flat-earth people, and they are in a hurry without time for all this, " says the publisher group's president, former congresswoman Patricia Schroeder.

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She tried to defeat - Hillary Clinton did - Barack on a foreign policy platform at the end there that fell flat on its face as far as not talking to your enemies and keeping up that blustery cold war attitude that the Republicans like.

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