First Funny ... Goes to Fred

Q -- On taxes ...

John McCain
"We've got to reform the tax code. Nobody understands it. Nobody trusts it. And we have to fix it."

Mike Huckabee
He said he's back a Fair Tax -- "And that means that the rich people aren't going to be made poor but that the poor people might have a chance to be rich."

Fred Thompson
"My goal is to get to Mitt Romney's situation where I don't have to worry about taxes anymore."

Mitt responds, by saying he'd like to be in Thompson's situation.

"Well you're getting to be a pretty good actor actually," Thompson quips.

Rudy
Reduce taxes across the board. Create a simpler tax code, something that could be filed in a page. "And we should give the death penalty to the death tax. It really is an unfair tax."

(JENNIFER SKALKA)