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This Is What Is Better About a Flat Tax

March 23, 2017 By Richard C. Young

Dan Mitchell, a scholar at the Cato Institute, explains why a flat tax system is so much better than punitive, progressive tax systems. There are many reasons, but some of the most appealing are increased economic activity, the end of the death tax, and the elimination of double taxation. Dan explains it here:

But we’d also enjoy more growth because there would be no more double taxation. Under a flat tax, the death tax is abolished, the capital gains tax is abolished, there’s no double taxation on savings, the second layer of tax on dividends is eliminated, and depreciation is replaced by expensing.

In the wonky jargon of public finance economists, this means we would have a “consumption-based” system, which is just another way of saying that income  would be taxed only one time. No longer would the internal revenue code discourage capital formation by imposing a higher effective tax rate on income that is saved and invested (compared to the tax rate on income that is consumed).

Indeed, this is the feature of tax reform that probably generates the most growth. As I explain in this video on capital gains taxation, all economic theories – even Marxism and socialism – agree that capital formation is a key to long-run prosperity.

Read more here.

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