EconTalk Archives, 2007 artwork

Rabushka on the Flat Tax

EconTalk Archives, 2007

English - April 23, 2007 13:45 - 1 hour - 14.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
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Alvin Rabushka of Stanford University's Hoover Institution lays out the case for the flat tax, a reform of the current system that would replace the 66,000 page U.S. tax code with a single rate and no deductions other than personal exemptions. An individual tax return would fit on a simple postcard. Rabushka discusses the economic changes that would come with such a reform and the adoption of the flat tax around the world since Rabushka and Robert Hall proposed the idea in 1981.