Hall and Rabushka served as consultants to many of those governments as they implemented a flat tax.
FORBES: Flat Tax Is Fantasy In U.S. But Works Fine Behind Old Iron Curtain
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The first comprehensive proposal for a U.S. flat tax came in the 1985 book The Flat Tax, by economists Robert Ernest Hall and Alvin Rabushka.
FORBES: Flat Tax Is Fantasy In U.S. But Works Fine Behind Old Iron Curtain
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Alvin Rabushka, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, believes it's only a matter of time before an emerging economic superpower like China or India goes the flat-tax route.