{"id":1141,"date":"2009-04-23T21:41:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T01:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2009-04-25T22:42:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T02:42:37","slug":"the-flat-tax-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/23\/the-flat-tax-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fair Tax Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment on my post &#8220;Tea Party Tax Protests and Reality&#8221;, Debi asks, &#8220;Jeff, what is wrong with the Fair Tax?&#8221;  I replied without really investigating the Fair Tax and made some assumptions that were probably not correct.  You know what assume does, don&#8217;t you?  Makes an a** out of you and me, right?  So, in the interests of correcting my misperceptions, I went out and did a bit of research on the Fair Tax issue.  I found it most interesting that I had a very hard time finding a progressive critique of the Fair Tax.  Most of the critiques that I found were on hard right Libertarian sites, among them the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mises.org\/story\/1814\">Mises Institute<\/a>, which endorses Austrian economics and Murray Rothbard.  But I did find a liberal site, <a href=\"http:\/\/ataxingmatter.blogs.com\/tax\/\">A Taxing Matter<\/a>, that I thought offered a very balanced critique from a progressive viewpoint.  The post there endorsing Bruce Bartlett&#8217;s analysis struck me as covering all the points that I would have liked to cover.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Bartlett\">Bruce Bartlett<\/a>, I should note, is also a conservative who at one time had a column on <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/BruceBartlett\">Townhall.com<\/a>, the premier conservative website.  I enjoyed reading the posts on Professor Beale&#8217;s blog.  I think she is even-handed in her coverage of the Tea Party phenomenon.  To entice Debi to visit her <a href=\"http:\/\/ataxingmatter.blogs.com\/tax\/\">blog<\/a>, I&#8217;m &#8220;borrowing&#8221; the cartoon that she posted on her site &#8211; one that I agree with!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/holmes.jpg\" alt=\"Holmes.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"503\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment on my post &#8220;Tea Party Tax Protests and Reality&#8221;, Debi asks, &#8220;Jeff, what is wrong with the Fair Tax?&#8221; I replied without really investigating the Fair Tax and made some assumptions that were probably not correct. You <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/23\/the-flat-tax-myth\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}