Daniel J. Mitchell
 | Senior Fellow, Cato Institute The Case for a Flat Tax 05/11/2006 Mitchell is one of the nation's leading experts on tax reform and supply-side tax policy, and he knows how to explain the politics and complexities of tax policy in easy-to-understand terms. As former Presidential candidate Steve Forbes said of Mitchell's 1996 book, The Flat Tax: Freedom, Fairness, Jobs, and Growth, "Mitchell marvelously demonstrates how the flat tax will rip away the principal source of political pollution in Washington." Mitchell also is the nation's leading opponent of tax harmonization schemes
developed by the Brussels-based European Union, the Paris-based Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the United Nations. His
September 2000 analysis of the OECD's "harmful tax competition"
initiative was the opening salvo in a campaign to shift the position of
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