A proportional tax, also known as a flat tax, is a type of tax system that levies the same tax rate on everyone, no matter their income level. This system is in contrast to the progressive or marginal ...

Thanks to the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on the legislative filibuster, any notion of Congress making a sustained push for democratic reforms is functionally dead. Voting rights ...

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As states from Texas to California to Florida debate and vote on new electoral maps, Americans are both learning about — and often disgusted by — the scale of gerrymandering in their states. The ...

An all-party committee has recommended that the federal government design a new electoral system and put it to the public in a national referendum. The new system would be a form of proportional ...

A proportional tax system is one in which income tax is the same percentage of income from every person no matter how much income the person makes. A proportional tax system, often also referred to as ...