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Why We Need the Flat Tax |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Dick Armey |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 5/1/1995 |
| Size: 1,699 Words, 10,131 Characters |
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FOOTNOTE: Address by Rep. Dick Armey at the American Enterprise Institute Conference on the Flat Tax, January 27, 1995.
We flat taxers are populists. We believe government should be open, honest, direct--and smaller. And most Americans agree with us. And that's why I believe the flat tax is about to become the most galvanizing issue since term limits. I hope to see the bill ride a populist prairie fire of enthusiasm to final enactment in this Congress. But if that proves too ambitious as a timetable, then I hope to see the flat tax endorsed in the 1996 Republican platform and signed into law under the next Republican president--in 1997.
Why do we need a flat tax? Because, after seven decades of abuse by corporate lobbyists and self-righteous income redistributors, our current tax code is a wasteful, complicated mess. It's so bad, even the IRS can't give accurate advice on it. Rates are high, loopholes abound, and families are burdened as never before.
Today, the average family pays more in...
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... Carried forward by the flat tax, we will reach our destination of freedom, fairness, and prosperity for all.
Additional Reading:
Robert Eisner, "The Proposed Sales and Wages Tax," Conference paper for the American Enterprise Institute, January 27, 1995.
Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka, "The Flat Tax in 1995," Conference paper for the American Enterprise Institute, January 27, 1995.
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