Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS

by Steve Forbes

Book Overview

File your taxes on a postcard? Impossible Guess again, says Steve Forbes, in his important new book Flat Tax Revolution. In fact, countries around the world have freed their taxpayers to do just... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895260409
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Regnery
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Read this book, then write your Congressmen

Forbes's tax system is a step in the right direction. As he demonstrates in his book, lower taxes actually increase government revenue. Any Economics 101 professor can show you how this is possible (less taxes means fewer deadweight losses). Lower taxes make a more vibrant economy, which grows to support more government income. Even if there was no economic benefit to anyone, Forbes's system at least gets rid of the terrible nightmare that is our current tax code.

Great proposal with a lot of helpful information to help you make an impact for tax reform!

Every person who is concerned about taxes should read this concise and clearly written book. Steve Forbes has put forward a plan that will help every one of us by making our economy more efficient, make competition in the marketplace more even and fair (because being well connected with lobbyists would lose its power to get you a special break), and would make our representatives more directly accountable for what they spend because it would be more clear to each of us what it is we pay into the Washington D.C. sinkhole. Every now and again it is essential to not just overhaul the tax code, but to wipe it out completely and start over. This happens because those whose job it is to spend the money eventually realize that the more money they have to spend the greater their power. They grant the money to those who support them, to retain popularity with their constituents, and to make those who receive payments beholden to them. They learn to collect the money as indirectly as possible so there is no general opposition to this or that small increase while there is a very vocal special interest group that wants the payment and hires lobbyists and supports the campaign costs of those who get them those payments. The whole code becomes impenetrable with exceptions, loopholes, and one-offs. For example, Mr. Forbes points out a couple of times that Starbucks, your local caffeine purveyor, has gotten Congress to grant it a special exemption as a MANUFACTURER so it can get a special tax break on the grounds (sorry) that it grinds coffee beans. Right. There are thousands of these special favors built into the code. How does that help the consumer? Starbucks should have to compete against every other coffee company on an equal footing and that will get the customers the best prices, products, and services. This optimistic book takes us on a quick trip through the present monstrosity, the benefits to America that a Flat Tax will bring, compares it to a national sales tax, shows the experience of other countries who have a flat tax, and then gives the reader the information he or she needs to go out and make a difference to get this done. Mr. Forbes provides contact information for contacting your elected officials in Washington and some leading organizations concerned with tax reform. He provides contact information for national radio shows and other information to help you get up to speed about what else is being offered in the name of tax reform. Other flat tax proposals are also compared. Mr. Forbes also talks about how a Flat Tax combined with Health Savings Accounts will free most of us from being bound to our elected officials and the threat of becoming devastated if a job change is forced on you. This is a terrific book and reads like fresh air breathes. I hope you will read it, tell your friends about it, and that it will generate a great deal of INFORMED discussion rather than the deafening roar of those who benefit from the present

Flat Tax for the Future

I found this book insightful, an easy read. I don't usually pick up books on the subject of taxes but was drawn to it due to Mr. Forbes' excellent writing in his "Fact and Comment" column in Forbes magazine. If you want to understand what needs to be done in the future, this is a must read!

Great Book! Easy Read! Important Topic!

This is a great, easy read of a subject I hate--TAXES! The book makes perfect sense, hopefully those idiots in Washington, DC will read it and learn something! We need this type of tax system, where the more you make the more you pay, so it's fair to all of us, not like the current system that favors the rich and the lawyers!

Flat Tax Now!!

Just read Steve Forbes' new book, Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS. What an idea! The Washington politicians, H & R Block, tax lawyers, theIRS, and lobbyists will hate it...they will be out of business! The book is a GREAT read, written for non-economists, non-nerds. Steve shows how this can work in America, but he also shows how it is already working in a bunch of other countries. He also brilliantly demolishes all those phony arguments that tax-lovers use against it. Good Job Steve!!