WASHINGTON, DC – With America’s Republican presidential candidates lining up to declare their fealty to a flat tax – a system of personal-income taxation that assesses a single rate for all – opponents have focused on why it is a bad idea to raise taxes on the poor in order to reduce them for the wealthy. But, if a flat tax is such a bad idea, why have so many countries embraced it?
华盛顿特区——统一税率体系是对所有纳税者实行单一税率的个人所得税体系，美国共和党总统候选人异口同声地支持统一税率，而反对者则喋喋不休地强调为什么为了给富人减税而给穷人增税是个坏主意。但如果统一税率真的那么糟糕，为什么还有那么多国家实行统一税率？