August 7, 2012
President Obama and conservative GOP senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) agree: Olympic medals and the cash awards that go with them should be tax-exempt. This is...
August 6, 2012
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) provides a significant income boost to low-income single-parent families, but can severely penalize those families if the parent marries...
August 6, 2012
My recent post on government size prompted several readers to ask a natural follow-up question: how has the government’s role as employer changed over time?...
August 2, 2012
A new paper by Brookings Institution scholars and Tax Policy Center colleagues Bill Gale, Adam Looney, and Samuel Brown is generating lots of media buzz...
July 31, 2012
Politicians and pundits constantly debate the size of government. Is it big or small? Growing or shrinking? You might hope these simple questions have simple...
July 30, 2012
On Friday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first look at Gross Domestic Product and its components for the second quarter of the year...
July 27, 2012
Higher education is a good investment, even though some new grads currently struggling to get jobs don’t think so. But does it make sense for...
July 26, 2012
Here’s a word association game: I say tax-exempt public charity. You say house of worship, soup kitchen, or university. You probably don’t think about secret...
July 25, 2012
As early as today, the Senate is likely to vote on the first of two competing efforts to temporarily extend tax cuts passed between 2001...
July 24, 2012
Senate Democrats, who will vote this week to allow most of the 2001/2003 tax cuts to expire for high-income households, are likely to make an...