Regressive Tax Overhaul Proposals

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

News

• Arlen Specter, Proponent of Regressive "Flat Tax," Loses Primary Battle - 05/21/2010
• BILL CLINTON IS WRONG ABOUT THE VAT - 05/13/2010
• New CTJ Report on 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 - 03/12/2010
• New Report from CTJ: Senator Specter's "Flat Tax" Cuts Taxes for the Richest 5% and Raises Taxes for Everyone Else - 02/19/2010
• For more articles on Regressive Tax Overhaul Proposals from our Tax Justice Digest, click here.

Recent Reports

• 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 - 03/27/009
• 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
• 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

Older Reports

Alternative "Simplified" Tax

• 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 - 03/27/009
• 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

Flat Tax Proposals

• Watch CTJ Director Bob McIntyre Debate the Flat Tax on CNBC - 04/13/2007
• Flat Tax Proposals: An Introduction to Recent Legislation - 11/01/1998
• Would it be a good idea to replace the income tax with a consumption tax? [Insight Magazine Symposium. Robert S. McIntyre.] - 09/23/1996
• Notes on Dick Armey's Revised "Flat Tax." - 07/26/1995
• Flat tax and other consumption tax proposals discussed [Testimony Before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee] - 05/17/1995
• Estimating Revenue Losses from the Armey Flat Tax: A Chronology - 07/27/1995
• Flat On Our Backs [Robert McIntyre, The Nation] - February 1996
• The Flat Taxers' Flat Distortions [Robert S. McIntyre, The American Prospect] - Summer 1995
• Critical Notes On "The Progressive Consumption Tax." [Robert S. McIntyre] - October 1992
• 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 Texans - 03/08/1996
• Most New Yorkers Would Be Hit Hard by "Flat Tax" - 03/05/1996
• Detailed tables on the effects of the Flat Tax on New Yorkers - 03/05/1996
• Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr.'s $1.9 Billion Tax Cut -- for Himself - 02/06/1996
• Kemp Commission: Damn the Deficit, Full Speed Backwards - 01/17/1996
• Armey Flat Tax, Table of Examples - 02/06/1996
• Armey Flat Tax Distributional Tables - 02/06/1996
• Forbes Flat Tax Distributional Tables - 02/06/1996
• Also, Some Flat Tax Quotes
• The Facts About Jerry Brown's Proposed Flat-Rate Income Tax & National Sales Tax - 03/16/1992
• Notes on the Norton-Kemp DC Flat Tax Plan - April/July 1996
• Burden Will Fall Heavily On the Poor [Robert S. McIntyre, The Item] - 03/29/1995
• Voodoo Economics: The Sequel [Robert S. McIntyre, The Washington Post] - 09/25/1994
• Taxing the Poor [Robert S. McIntyre, The New Republic] - 01/30/1995

National Sales Tax Proposals (Sometimes Called "Fair Tax")

• Impact of a National Sales Tax - 09/01/2004
• The 23 Percent Solution [Robert S. McIntyre, The New York Times] - 01/23/1998
• Notes on a Value-Added Tax [Robert S. McIntyre] - 05/25/1993
• The Consumption Tax is a Bad Idea [Robert S. McIntyre] - MONTH
• No Sale: Lessons for America From Sales Taxes in Europe [Robert S. McIntyre and David C. Wilhelm] - 1988
• Unfair Share: The Case Against Federal Sales Taxes [Robert S. McIntyre, David Wilhelm] - 1986