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The Great Hillsdale College Debate: Flat Tax or Fair Tax?
I’m at Hillsdale College in Michigan for a conference on taxation. The event is called “The Federal Income Tax: A Centenary Consideration,” though I would have called it something like… Read more
Learning from the European Experience: Do Higher Tax Burdens Lead to Less Red Ink?
I’ve been arguing against higher taxes because of my concerns that more revenue will simply lead to a bigger burden of government spending. Yes, I realize it is theoretically possible… Read more
Richard Epstein Discusses the Flat Tax
In addition to being my former debating partner, Richard Epstein is one of America’s premiere public intellectuals. You can watch him make mincemeat out of George Soros in this video,… Read more
Based on What’s Happening in the Czech Republic, Perhaps the Lesson to Learn Is that All Right-Wing Parties Are Controlled by Morons
I periodically mock Republicans for being the stupid party. Yes, some of them probably mean well, but they have this lemming-like instinct to throw themselves on hand grenades. But I… Read more
Romney is Right that You Can Lower Tax Rates and Reduce Tax Preferences without Hurting the Middle Class
Even though I’m not a Romney fan, I sometimes feel compelled to defend him against leftist demagoguery. But instead of writing about tax havens, as I’ve done in the past,… Read more
Since Leftists Don’t Like Corporate Loopholes, They Should Support the Flat Tax
I appeared on CNBC a couple of days ago to discuss a new report which claims that some big U.S. companies “only” paid 9 percent of their income to the… Read more
Explaining Pro-Growth Tax Reform to the Senate Budget Committee
What do the flat tax and national sales tax (and even the value-added tax) have in common? As I explain in this Senate Budget Committee testimony, they are all single-rate,… Read more
Three Cheers for this Lawsuit against the Thugs at the IRS
Early in 2010, I wrote about a reprehensible IRS plan to create a cartel in the tax preparation industry, which would screw small firms and entrepreneurs to help line the… Read more
By Restraining Burden of Federal Spending, Senator Paul Shows How It’s Simple to Balance the Budget
Last year, while lounging on the beach in the Caribbean…oops, I mean while doing off-site research, I developed the first iteration of a rule to describe how fiscal policy should… Read more
IRS Commissioner Bumps into Reality, Learns Nothing and Wants to Make the Tax System Worse
This interview with the IRS Commissioner is really irritating. He wants us to believe that all the problems exist because of bad laws enacted by Congress. I certainly agree that… Read more
