{"id":368,"date":"2007-01-23T16:44:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/01\/23\/the-economist-on-flat-tax\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T16:44:05","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T14:44:05","slug":"the-economist-on-flat-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/01\/23\/the-economist-on-flat-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economist on flat tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surprisingly well balanced review of the current state of flat taxes is to be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/agenda\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8547343\" target=\"_blank\">last week's Economist<\/a>. It concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On balance, it would seem that the flat-tax revolution is more likely than not to slow, and even reverse eventually, as the income gap between western and east-central Europe narrows.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, the phenomena is a simple one that has been required to assist the transition from disorder to order, but has nothing to offer developed economies. That may well be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprisingly well balanced review of the current state of flat taxes is to be found in last week&#8217;s Economist. It concludes: On balance, it<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/01\/23\/the-economist-on-flat-tax\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flat-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}