Bill Hoagland

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Raising Taxes to Fuel, Fly, and… Drink?

Have taxes, will travel. The American Road & Transportation Builders Association wants Congress to raise the federal gas tax by 15 cents a gallon to generate $401 billion in new transportation funding. Money for the Highway Trust Fund dries up in May. The group suggests the tax be offset with a

March 13, 2015Renu Zaretsky

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Dynamic Scoring Forum: Overblown Concerns?

This is one of a series of TaxVox guest blogs discussing dynamic scoring. Macroeconomic scoring, aka dynamic scoring, has been debated for years. For the 114 th Congress, the House has adopted a rule to institute the procedure for major bills. But what would dynamic scoring really mean in practice

March 11, 2015G. William Hoagland