The Flat Tax: Why It Won't Work for America

By Scott E. Hicko

An Attempt by the Super Wealthy to shirk responsibility and shift tax burdens to middle America, a flat tax could destroy the American Dream! So says author Scott E. Hicko, Certified Public Accountant... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886039283
• ISBN13: 9781886039285
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Addicus Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Experience, Critical Thinking & Clear Presentation

Scott Hicko's work to expose the lies and fraud of the widely discussed flat tax ideas coming from the Right is a breath of fresh air in the stifling and rancid air of Bush era politics. Even though it responds to Dick Armey's doomed plan of the mid-90's, you can be sure the Flat Tax debate will come roaring back as the Right, led by the Bush/Cheney/Rove triumvirate, continues its class war against the middle and lower classes.Other reviewers have criticised this book. One reviewer mentions Alvin Rabushka's work on the flat tax system but Rabushka himself conceeded in his book that the flat tax would disproportionately burden the lower classes! The reviewers offer no substantiation that Hicko's book is factually incorrect. The author has 25 years of experience as a CPA and has done battle with the IRS for years. He knows the tax codes inside and out and he is adept at straightforward calculations about federal revenue. He makes very clear the case that the people with the money and power in this country are doing everything in their power to pass more and more of the burden to the lower and middle classes. It's not rocket science. It's math. The Right's usual approach when they try to shove this sort of tax concept down our throats is to cloak it in the classic language of "trickle-down," to convince us that all of these changes will lead to fantastic job growth and new prosperity for the country. Fat chance. We've seen plenty of what Republican economic initiative has done for this country in the last 20+ years. It's done a fantastic job enriching the top 1% of the people in the country, that's what it's done. All the while the middle class is going backwards over the last 30 years. Put another way, the middle and lower classes are heading down the toilet; we hardly need the final flush of a Flat Tax. ...