摘要：Several food market indicators would change if a flat income tax system.that is, a systemwithout exemptions, deductions, credits, and deferrals.replaced the current system. Ourfindings support the widely held view that even though a flat income tax system wouldincrease national income, gains for consumers would be only modest. Nor would economicgrowth be universal. A Federal flat tax structure would lead to smaller farm industries withlower than average growth rates, larger food industries with higher than average growthrates, slightly lower food production costs and consumer food prices, reduced net farmexports, and reduced net food imports. If States were to enact similar reforms, consumer foodprices would drop 2.2 percent overall and over 5 percent in the Delta, Appalachian, andSouthern Plains regions. Some of these indicators vary substantially by region.
