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.

The European Union (EU) has announced plans to levy a tax on airline emissions for all planes landing and taking off from EU airports. This tax would be calculated not only based on mileage flown in EU airspace but also for the entire length of the flight (thus, Chinese and Japanese airlines would be taxed for an entire journey from Beijing or Tokyo).

The best way to attract investment to the United States is not to penalize domestic firms that invest abroad, but to remove penalties on firms, domestic or foreign, that invest here. Numerous governments around the world have reached similar conclusions about their own economies and have reduced corporate income tax rates to attract investment to their shores.

In the run-up to this weekend's G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obama's economic policies.

Health reform created the opportunity to redirect tax incentives to promote greater equity, efficiency, and choice in insurance markets.

The "Buffett Rule's" stated goal of making millionaires pay the same tax rates as the middle class is appealing. Unfortunately, the proposal is based on inaccurate claims about the tax system and its enactment would penalize the investment that fuels long-run economic growth.

We should be thinking about fundamentally changing the base of our tax system.