{"entry":{"title":"A Constitutional Case for the Flat Tax","date":"Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:00:00 -0600","author":"Richard Epstein, Defining Ideas","description":"
By common consent, our constitutional system of government is broken in some deep way that resists any short-term fixes. Anyone who has witnessed the fiscal cliff saga must fear that the brinksmanship so evident between the Republicans and Democrats is rapidly becoming par for the political course.<\/span><\/p>","original_link":"http:\/\/www.hoover.org\/publications\/defining-ideas\/article\/137471"}}