Economist dislikes Huckabee's religiosity, but loves his FairTax
In this piece for left-leaning Slate magazine, Steven Landsburg extols the virtues of a national sales tax and why many on the left just don¹t get it. MORE.
In this piece for left-leaning Slate magazine, Steven Landsburg extols the virtues of a national sales tax and why many on the left just don¹t get it. MORE.
The basic problem would be that it is such a radical chabge that it would inevitably run into wide political opposition. Its great merit from a Socialist point of view would be that rightly adjusted it would be naturally redistributive.