Rick Perry's tax plan attacked by ... Phyllis Schlafly?

Postcards from the edge

Now Perry's tax plan is getting panned from a very unlikely source: the religious right. As you can imagine, it's not because his plan, like Cain's, is primarily just an avenue to provide massive tax cuts to the rich. Nor is it because his plan is layered onto the existing tax code in some strange attempt to pretend nothing is changing and everything is changing at the same time. No, this complaint is a bit odder, and comes from America's original Church Lady:

But Phyllis Schlafly, the religious-right icon who, like Perry, was featured at this year’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, says Perry’s plan fails on another measure: protection of marriage.

In an op-ed at Creators.com, the Eagle Forum founder tears into Perry’s flat-tax proposal which, she says, “would eliminate all tax advantages for married couples where one spouse is the primary breadwinner.”

Schlafly bristles at the possibility that, if Perry has his way, husbands...

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