EconTalk Archives, 2007
EconTalk Archives, 2007
EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Library of Economics and Liberty
Rabushka on the Flat Tax
1 hour 4 minutes Posted Apr 23, 2007 at 1:45 pm.
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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.