I thought a meeting to be held on Tuesday 24 April 2007 in the Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, Westminster SW1A 2LW might appeal to some readers. As the press notice says:
Despite its potential to minimise the corrosive impacts of high aid dependence on governance, and to replace aid in the long term, aid agencies take [...]
In view of the previous story I was amused to note that the Hoover press re-issued Hall and Rabushka’s ‘Flat Tax’ book yesterday.
Apparently it’s now achieved ‘classic’ status. A classic con, maybe. A work of folly, perhaps. A contribution to welfare? No, definitely not. But then Rabuska never intended that. In his opinion a tax [...]
Flat taxes get more absurd by the day, and the injustice they create increases. Take the new Czech proposal as an example. The claim is that they will have a 15% flat tax. Well, that’s not true.
As MSN reports, it’s not a flat tax because the corporation tax rate is to be 19%. That blows [...]