At this event, Alan Viard will present the X tax proposal while James Mackie of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute will offer commentary.

This book by Alan Viard and Robert Carroll proposes to completely replace the income tax system with a progressive consumption tax.

David F. Bradford was the father of modern consumption tax philosophy and the most important contributor of the last few decades to serious thinking about fundamental tax reform.

The world lost a great economist last week when David F. Bradford succumbed to injuries suffered in a fire.

Ominously labeled "Taxmageddon," a host of tax policy changes are set to occur at year-end, and there truly is much at stake: $3.67 trillion of additional tax revenue over 10 years from the Bush tax cuts alone.

There is a tax plan that offers the best of both worlds: growth and progressivity. It's called the Bradford X tax.

This study explores how the tax design called the X tax could alleviate the complexities and avoidance opportunities plaguing the existing U.S. system for taxing international business income.

Two days before the Supreme Court hears arguments in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Rumsfeld v. Padilla, AEI will host a discussion of the legal and policy issues raised by detaining under military law U.S. citizens who take up arms against the United States. The discussion will be led by AEI...