A Flat Tax System

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This paper explains that changing the U.S. tax system to a flat tax system with a broader tax base and lower tax rates has advantages and disadvantages over the current tax system, which is very complicated and has issues of inequity. The author points out that the
new tax system would broaden the tax base, lower tax rates and do
away with mortgage interest payments and state and local tax deductions. The paper states that, once the principles of a low flat rate tax on consumption with no deductions is established and all the special interest lobbies have been steamrollered, the logical next step is to scrap the income tax entirely.

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"Many groups may protest against a broadened tax base and lowered tax rates through a flat tax type initiative. Entities and individuals with tax shelters for example would be very angry about this change and likely would protest because they would be losing their tax shelters. Homeowners might also protest because of the abovementioned
predictions in regard to the housing market and how it might collapse under a flat tax initiative. And politicians who are entrenched in or have interests in maintaining the status quo will protest against change in the system and try to tie up the effectiveness and speed of the change."

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