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  • Hardcover: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition (July 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0895260409
  • ISBN-13: 978-0895260406
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 0.9 x 9.5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat proposal with a lot of helpful information to help you make an impact for tax reform!
By Craig Matteson HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on July 25, 2005
Format: Hardcover
Every person who is concerned about taxes should read this concise and clearly written book. Steve Forbes has put forward a plan that will help every one of us by making our economy more efficient, make competition in the marketplace more even and fair (because being well connected with lobbyists would lose its power to get you a special break), and would make our representatives more directly accountable for what they spend because it would be more clear to each of us what it is we pay into the Washington D.C. sinkhole.

Every now and again it is essential to not just overhaul the tax code, but to wipe it out completely and start over. This happens because those whose job it is to spend the money eventually realize that the more money they have to spend the greater their power. They grant the money to those who support them, to retain popularity with their constituents, and to make those who receive payments beholden to them. They learn to collect the money as indirectly as possible so there is no general opposition to this or that small increase while there is a very vocal special interest group that wants the payment and hires lobbyists and supports the campaign costs of those who get them those payments.

The whole code becomes impenetrable with exceptions, loopholes, and one-offs. For example, Mr. Forbes points out a couple of times that Starbucks, your local caffeine purveyor, has gotten Congress to grant it a special exemption as a MANUFACTURER so it can get a special tax break on the grounds (sorry) that it grinds coffee beans. Right. There are thousands of these special favors built into the code. How does that help the consumer?Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFlat Tax Now!!
By Ann Marinovich on July 18, 2005
Format: Hardcover
Just read Steve Forbes' new book, Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS. What an idea! The Washington politicians, H&R Block, tax lawyers, theIRS, and lobbyists will hate it...they will be out of business! The book is a GREAT read, written for non-economists, non-nerds. Steve shows how this can work in America, but he also shows how it is already working in a bunch of other countries. He also brilliantly demolishes all those phony arguments that tax-lovers use against it. Good Job Steve!!
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3.0 out of 5 starsGood start but the final plan is neither flat nor fair
By Peter Lorenzi on September 1, 2005
Format: Hardcover
This 'simple' tax seems pretty complicated. Let me see if I get this right.

Forbes inadvertently calls for two federal income tax rates: a progressive tax on income (after personal deductions) and continuation of the regressive social security tax, also a federal tax on income. To see the problem, let's take a look at the prototypical (if also increasingly rare) two-parent, two-child family. Under Forbes's plan, their federal income tax rate changes, depending on the family's income. He starts by proposing exemptions, deductions, and tax credits, undercutting his claims that this is a "simple" flat tax and his argument that the whole point of a flat tax is to eliminate personal deductions, exemptions and the like. Then, below $46,165 a year, this family's effective federal income tax rate is zero. At an annual family income of $92,330, the effective or real tax rate it is half of Forbes' nominal 17% `flat' rate, because the family pays no taxes on the first $46, 165. And at $138,495, the rate is two-thirds of Forbes' nominal rate. You get the picture. The rate approaches the nominal 17% flat rate Forbes proposes, but never reaches it. This is called calculus, or approaching the nominal rate asymptotically. But it is not a flat tax. It is flat on the margin, but only for those who pay taxes, and with a $46,135 cut off, many families would pay no Forbes federal income taxes.

But wait! The Forbes `flat' tax isn't really fair either. On page sixty, right after Forbes proposes his "flat" 17% federal income tax rate and those exemptions and deductions), he decides to leave social security taxes out of the equation ("It does not supplant Medicare and social security taxes..."). Social security taxes are federal taxes on income, no matter how you slice it, lock-box it, or play with it.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsToo Little Too Soon
By D. W. MacKenzie on April 15, 2008
Format: Hardcover
The Forbes plan for tax reform is far less than ideal. It is not really a flat and simple tax, just a flatter and simpler tax. That being said, his system is preferable to the current monstrosity enforced by the IRS. Ideally, we should scrap the tax code and established a low flat tax rate. My ideal solution is not going to happen at this time.

Our first priority should be to slash Federal spending. With Federal spending as high as it is there is no chance of real tax reform. High levels of spending require high levels of taxation. With high levels of taxation, people are going to lobby for tax exemptions, so we will likely be stuck with a complex income tax code.

Forbes and other critics of big government should focus on restraining and then cutting growth in Federal spending. Then, after the spending problem is under control, we can talk about real tax reform. In the mean time, we might as well discuss the merits of more radical and ideal tax reform. In other words, Forbes advocates too little tax reform too soon. We should wait for an opportunity to really kill the IRS and the tax compliance industry. The IRS is a fundamentally evil organization, and the tax compliance industry is parasitic. Their time will come, and decent people who oppose them should be patient.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWish it would happen!

WISH it would happen! Common sense and freedom.

Published 2 months ago by napitalk
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Good material in good condition

Published 15 months ago by femi emmanuel
3.0 out of 5 starsBuilt on a flawed assumption

Forbes' flat-tax proposal is built on a flawed assumption -- that the central government should be doing everything it does and therefore needs all those taxes. Read more

Published on January 10, 2014 by Blaine Nay
5.0 out of 5 starsI'm convinced

Steve Forbes has proposed the most comprehensive and simple solution to our whole corrupt, overly complex tax system. Read more

Published on May 7, 2013 by Brad Davis
5.0 out of 5 starsOPINION

I did buy this book and my opinion about it is: every american should read it too. Educate themselves. Read more

Published on May 24, 2011 by PAUL B
3.0 out of 5 starsUseful, but limited, information

While I support a flax tax, I was disappointed that this book omitted many key arguments. Most significantly, the moral argument was omitted. Read more

Published on November 26, 2010 by Eric Kassan
3.0 out of 5 starsA one-sided sales pitch

Tax law complexity is a serious problem (probably worse now than in 2005), and the idea of radically simplifying the system is appealing. Read more

Published on October 25, 2010 by William Whipple III
5.0 out of 5 starsFlat Tax Revolution

Very well written book. Revealed a lot of information. This is a must read for anyone concerned about personal income taxes and the economic stability of the United States.

Published on September 12, 2010 by Mr. William Logsdon
5.0 out of 5 starsSteve Forbes needs to resurrect this idea!!!!!!

This book is 5 years old now and we need to take a serious look at it's contents. It might not be on the top of people's mind right now with our unemployment problem but when this... Read more

Published on May 12, 2010 by Robert Kirk
5.0 out of 5 starsFlat Tax ..YES -- Fair Tax .. NO --VAT..ABSOLUTELY NOT

05-07-2010 @ 05:11 PM EST .. There Are So Many Current Instances In The International Community Demonstrating The Incredible Economic Benefits Of The Flat Tax. Read more

Published on May 7, 2010 by Courtenay S. Ettricks

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