A Tale of Two Davids: Commentary on David Weisbach’s Implementing Income and Consumption Taxes: An Essay in Honor of David Bradford

David Weisbach has given us a work that would have made David Bradford proud. I can think of no higher compliment than that, and it is well warranted. David Bradford devoted much of his considerable intellectual gifts to figuring out analytic equivalences among various, seemingly divergent, tax systems, and attempting to carefully explain them to participants in the political processes (as in Blueprints for Tax Reform, 1977 and 1984) and…