Herman Cain apparently has proposed a tax reform along lines I once suggested. I made the case from a public choice perspective that single-digit tax rates would reduce the incentive to lobby for tax breaks.
Still, there is nothing to the rumor that I am a Cain insider.
Oct 3 2011
This month's Feature Article on Econlib is "The Worldwide Decline in Conscription: A Victory for Economics?" by Beloit College economics professor Joshua C. Hall. Josh, who is a co-author of Economic Freedom in the World, shows that one component of economic freedom, an all-volunteer military rather than a partially d...
Oct 3 2011
Ayn Rand raised me to despise Progressive education. Now that I'm reading Diane Ravitch's Left Back, though, I'm learning that "Progressive education," like Walt Whitman, contained multitudes. Ravitch identifies four distinct - and often conflicting - trends:First was the idea that education might become a ...
Oct 2 2011
Herman Cain apparently has proposed a tax reform along lines I once suggested. I made the case from a public choice perspective that single-digit tax rates would reduce the incentive to lobby for tax breaks. Still, there is nothing to the rumor that I am a Cain insider.
READER COMMENTS
Chris Koresko
Oct 3 2011 at 12:41am
I’d be interested to know what you think of Cain’s tax ideas, both the transitional “9-9-9” plan and the “Fair Tax”. I’ve looked at them just a little, but I don’t have the expertise to form a reliable opinion.
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