Flat tax

I had planned my next post to be about the work the Economic Policy Institute has been doing in the last few weeks, including an event on state and local budget relief and the release of a...

It's time to restart the dialogue on the flat tax. It's a policy that has cycled in and out of the national discourse since the 1990s, when the flat tax gathered some momentum across party lines. Jerry Brown, the former Governor of California and supply-side advocate, supported the flat tax in his unsuccessful 1992...