Regressive Tax Overhaul Proposals

(Alternative "Simplified" Tax, Flat Tax, "Fair Tax")

News

• HOUSE GOP LEADER CALLS FOR TAX INCREASES ON LOWER-INCOME AMERICANS - 04/20/2012
• The Herminator Is Back - With His 9-9-9 Plan - 04/16/2012
• CTJ Report: Ryan's Budget Cuts Income Taxes for Millionaires by at Least $187,000 - 03/22/2012
• Pizza Deal from Hell? Cain Struggles to Defend 9-9-9 Plan from Fellow Republican Candidates, CTJ and Others - 10/21/2011
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Recent Reports

• Ryan Budget Plan Would Cut Income Taxes for Millionaires by at Least $187,000 Annually and Facilitate Corporate Tax Avoidance - 03/22/2012
• GOP Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans Favor Richest 1 Percent - 01/06/2012
• GOP Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans Favor Richest in New Hampshire - 01/06/2012
• Herman Cain's "9-9-9 Plan" - 10/17/2011
• Rick Perry's "Flat Tax" and "Fair Tax" Both Mean Higher Taxes for Most Americans, Lower Taxes for the Rich - 08/24/2011
• House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's Goal Is to Shrink Government, Not the Deficit - 04/08/2011
• GOP Tax Cut Bill Would Add Almost $7 Trillion to America's National Debt To Further Enrich the Wealthiest - 08/03/2010
• Rep. Ryan's House GOP Budget Plan: Federal Government Would Collect $2 Trillion Less Over a Decade and Yet Require Bottom 90 Percent to Pay Higher Taxes - 03/09/2010
• Senator Specter's "Flat Tax" Cuts Taxes for the Richest 5% and Raises Taxes for Everyone Else - 02/19/2010
• Update on House GOP Budget Plan - 04/02/2009
• House GOP Leaders' Budget Plan: Poor Pay More and Rich Pay Less Under Plan that Costs $300 Billion More Annually than President's Plan - 03/27/2009
• The Tax Proposals of Presidential Candidates John McCain and Barack Obama - 10/16/2008
• House GOP Tax and Entitlement Plan Would Raise Taxes on Four Fifths of Americans While Slashing Taxes on the Wealthy - 07/07/2008
• Bush Panel Set to Propose Huge Deficits and Major Tax Shift Onto Wage Earners - 10/18/2005
• Impact of a National Sales Tax - 09/01/2004
• Flat Tax Proposals: An Introduction to Recent Legislation - 11/01/1998
• The 23 Percent Solution? - 01/23/1998
• Flat Tax Quotes - 05/12/1996
• Detailed tables on the effects of the Flat Tax on Texans - 03/08/1996
• Dick Armey & Steve Forbes's Plot to Raise Taxes on Most Texans - 03/08/1996
• Detailed tables on the effects of the Flat Tax on New Yorkers - 03/05/1996
• Most New Yorkers Would Be Hit Hard by "Flat Tax" - 03/05/1996
• Armey Flat Tax Distributional Tables - 02/06/1996
• Armey Flat Tax, Table of Examples - 02/06/1996
• Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr.'s $1.9 Billion Tax Cut -- for Himself - 02/06/1996
• Flat On Our Backs - 02/01/1996
• Kemp Commission: Damn the Deficit, Full Speed Backwards - 01/17/1996
• Estimating Revenue Losses from the Armey Flat Tax: A Chronology - 07/27/1995
• The Flat Taxers' Flat Distortions - 06/12/1995
• Flat tax and other consumption tax proposals discussed - 05/17/1995
• Voodoo Economics: The Sequel - 09/25/1994