Dr. Robert Stein, professor of cardiology at the New York University School Medicine, agrees.

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Brian S. Wesbury is chief economist, and Robert Stein senior economist, at First Trust Advisors in Lisle, Ill.

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Some recommendations: The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek, The Way the World Works by Jude Wanniski, yours truly's Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS, and the recent columns of Brian Wesbury and Robert Stein, as well as those of David Malpass.

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This idea has been championed by conservative policy entrepreneurs such as Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review and Robert Stein, a veteran of George W. Bush's Treasury Department, yet it has met with fierce resistance from The Wall Street Journal editorial board, which sees it as an unjustifiable tax giveaway that is an unhelpful distraction from the need to cut marginal tax rates.

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