The Price of Fairness

What One Year Without Redistribution Would Reveal About America

This will be my one and only truly political post this year, not about baseball.

I’ve been thinking about a wild idea lately—what would happen if, for just one year, every state in the U.S. paid the exact same amount in federal taxes? Not based on population, income, or GDP. Just a flat number. Fifty billion dollars from each state, regardless of size, w…