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Against the Flat Tax; By Murray N. Rothbard; “Special Interests”: Good or Bad? The flat tax draws virtually unanimous support from the right-thinking intellectuals in our society, including academics, writers, and media pundits.
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Similarly, two families with vastly different total incomes may pay the same individual tax if both families have the same amount of labor income. The flat tax, in short, produces a bias against labor, in much the same way that the current tax code produces a bias against saving.
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None of them is a true "flat tax." In actuality, each of these proposals recognizes the need for progressivity (the differing relative value of dollars at differing income levels, as discussed below) by allowing a primary exemption -- that no tax will be assessed against a primary layer of income.
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Such complexity does not argue against tax breaks for education and health care in a flat-tax world. They argue for limitation. Parents should be allowed to deduct a fixed amount of spending on education or health care for their children.
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Main Menu * Next Page; You have selected Option One, for a summary of the 17% FLAT TAX proposal ... House majority leader Dick Armey is proposing a 17% flat tax on income. This is basically the same plan supported by former candidate Steve Forbes.
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Summary: Flat Tax: The arguments against a flat tax don't hold water.. Updated Mar 06 '00 - Epinions.com ... I have read the Epinionators articles against the flat tax. Why did we get an income tax in the first place? There was a time when there was no income tax. It is ironic that the income tax was created with a lie...
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The Flat Tax Will Shift the Tax Burden ... middle class. Stripped of all its pretense, the flat tax is really a reward to the rich. Under the current ... Under the proposed flat tax, only earned income would be taxed. Therefore, taxes on interest,
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He’s dead set against his heirs living like Hollywood stars based on an accident of birth, but I have trouble imagining the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (who he’s bequeathed the vast majority of his fortune to) being ... Posted in Flat Taxes are Regressive, Income Tax Inequities, Limited Government | No Comments...
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A: As recent events demonstrate—a partial tax reform in 1986 followed by tax rate increases in 1990 and 1993—this is a real danger. However, this is not an argument against the flat tax. It is fur­ther evidence of the need for a constitutional amendment that requires a supermajority to raise taxes.
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