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The simple flat-tax system—featuring a postcard sized tax return—incentivizes work, saving, investing, and taking entrepreneurial risks.
Dive into the pages of this Hoover Classic, which critiques the flaws of our highly progressive tax system and offers a practical alternative that for years has been considered the most fair, efficient, and workable plan.
First proposed in 1981 by Hoover fellows Alvin Rabushka and Robert Hall, the flat tax is intended to simplify the federal tax system by replacing the progressive federal income tax system with a low and simple flat tax. While the plan is simple, the authors outline what it would take to implement it and unwind the morass of the current system.
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