How and Why a Flat Tax Works
Cato put together the following video breaking down the what, why, and how of implementing a flat tax. The author, Daniel MItchell, also notes the following:
There are two big hurdles that must be overcome to achieve tax reform. The first obstacle is that the class-warfare crowd wants the tax code to penalize success with high tax rates. That issue is addressed in the video in a couple of ways. I explain that fairness should be defined as treating all people equally . . .
Emphasis added. I couldn’t agree more:
In an unfair world equal treatment is the least unfair policy, and may be the only equality, and dignity, society can provide. Equal treatment should be the policy of individuals and private institutions. Equal treatment must be the policy of local, state, and federal governments, as well as public institutions. Equal treatment rises above every brutish form of collectivism and treats people as individuals, without regard to color, class, or creed, that we may all enjoy the dignity of rising, falling, failing, and achieving, on our own fortune and merit.
Content = A+
Presentation = C-
Production Value = F-
Dude’s Voice = Cartoon Monkey
Shitty blue-screen. PowerPoint Visuals. One armed monkey with imovie… viola. With Cato’s Budget there is no excuse for this sort of ass-clownery. Sub it out to PJMedia or Reason if you can’t make it look like something other than a college sophomore project. Michael Moore sells utter bloody drivel by dressing it up and good editing. The right needs to learn that even the finest of women look even finer with a little makeup.
Word. Reason’s videos rule.
Also I would like to see some mention of “Fair Tax,” nutter-associated though it is. There are some advantages to it that have not been addressed by the political mainstream. Mainly in the sense that the government knows that as long as tax is collected at the point of sale, they needn’t worry themselves quite as much with “crimes” that don’t hurt anybody directly like the dealing of light drugs. This, in fact, be the only way to segue to a decriminalization of drugs from our current position given the strong lawyer/prison lobby.