https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/19/no-to-the-flat-tax-and-other-stale-ideas/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 06:17:32 -0400<![CDATA[1. The flat tax: In the 2012 Republican presidential race, candidates including Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich proposed a flat tax on personal income. The idea seems likely to pop up again in 2016. Most flat-tax proposals are a version of a flat consumption tax devised by economists Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka. If you were creating a tax code ex nihilo, the flat tax might well be the way to go. Simulations, not to mention common sense, suggest that a flat tax with a low rate would produce a larger economy than the current mess of a tax code does.]]>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:27:22 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/19/no-to-the-flat-tax-and-other-stale-ideas-n100281