According to word we have just received, the flat tax that Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) is hoping to force upon the District is receiving a second round of debate and consideration today. The District of Columbia Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which he chairs, has scheduled a hearing today to dicuss his flat tax proposal, and it will be receiving testimony from District CFO Natwar Gandhi, Brookings Institution scholar Alice Rivlin, and Terence Golden…

Today’s Opinion on the flat tax in D.C. was written by Jonathon Schuster. On March 9 the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on DC held hearings to discuss Senator Sam Brownback’s (R-KS) idea of using the District as a testing ground for a national flat tax. Forget for the moment that Brownback is far from representative of the majority of District residents with his often extremist right wing statements (such as comparing abortions in America to the…

There a lot of things that could happen. But only a few actually do happen. This may be one. A few months back we reported that Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) was tossing around the idea of using the District as a testing ground for a flat tax. Given that he chairs the Senate’s Appropriations Subcommittee on the District of Columbia, has presidential aspirations and nowhere else to use as his own personal “laboratory,” this has…

As they say: nothing is sure in life but death and taxes. And in the District, those taxes are high. That may change, though. According to an article published in the New York Sun today, Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate’s Appropriations Subcommittee on the District of Columbia, is mulling introducing a flat tax in the District. His intentions are not so much noble as they are inquisitive, though. Brownback referred to the…