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This 12-page paper presents and dissects a persuasive argument concerning implementation of a flat tax. The audience is the home real estate industry. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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in the words of Alan Blinder, has ended up becoming "a byproduct of our system of democracy-by-lobbyist, which often produces messy, unprincipled outcomes" (p. A17). We dont need Mr. Blinder
to tell us how messy the tax system is - going through the awfulness that is income tax returns each April should tell us enough of this. The best way,
in my opinion, to avoid all of this is to go to a flat tax system in which everyone pays 15%, across the board, tax deductions and corporate loopholes are
removed and shell companies outside the U.S. are appropriately taxed. I can hear your arguments, though. Without mortgage interest deductions, home-buying will be
less affordable and homes will be harder to sell which, in turn, will drop the home prices (Mirabella, 1996). The issue, however, is
that this is patently false - there is evidence out there proving that moving from a graduated income tax to a flat tax (or national sales tax) wouldnt have an
adverse impact on the housing market, even if the mortgage interest deduction is eliminated. It would, in fact, increase home ownership. Lets take
a closer look at this. A little more than a decade ago, the American Enterprise Institute released a study pointing out that tax reform is 1) a gradual process and
2) would actually RAISE the market value of existing homes (Campbell, 1998). Economists contributing to the study pointed out that approximately 40% of homeowners dont itemize deductions anyhow (which is
required if they want to take the mortgage interest deduction) and that, if a consumption tax, or value-added tax, takes its place, it would increase the cost of new homes
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