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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Is Obama Tax Hiker in Chief? Not Exactly

Conservatives like to say that President Obama has been responsible for massive tax increases. It is wonderful rhetoric that plays to the big tax image...
October 4, 2011Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Eric Cantor, Tax Increases, and Soup Kitchens

PolitiFact’s Lou Jacobson recently pointed me to a blog post by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor complaining that President Obama’s proposal to limit itemized deductions...
September 30, 2011Roberton C. Williams
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Obama’s Buffett Rule: Keep Your Eye on Capital Gains

President Obama didn’t quite get around to saying so when he rolled out his latest deficit reduction plan on Monday, but his Buffett Rule —that...
September 22, 2011Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Will Romney’s Modest Capital Gains Tax Cut Hurt With the GOP?

Welcome to the season of jobs plans. GOP presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman offered his last week. President Obama will propose his before Thursday night's football...
September 6, 2011Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

How Congress Can Cap Tax Breaks

Sooner or later, Congress will realize it needs new revenues to help balance the budget, and trimming tax subsidies is the way to get them...
August 11, 2011Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

What Would the Gang of Six Really Do to Taxes?

As my Tax Policy Center colleague Donald Marron noted the other day, trying to sort through the various baselines in the Gang of Six’s bipartisan...
July 22, 2011Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

The Senate Gang of Six’s Budget Plan Aims at Taxes

The Senate’s bipartisan on again/off again Gang of Six has proposed an ambitious tax and spending package that closely follows the plan offered six months...
July 20, 2011Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

A Tax By Any Other Name

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." William Shakespeare If I understand correctly, Congressional...
June 30, 2011Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

How Michele Bachmann Would Knock 20,000 Millionaires off the Tax Rolls

In a revealing interview with Steve Moore of The Wall Street Journal , Representative Michele Bachmann(R-MN) called for repealing taxes on capital gains. She also...
June 16, 2011Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Too Many Cooks on Tax Policy?

I’m preparing a presentation on our tax system for a group of visiting foreign tax officials and they wanted to know how responsibilities are divided...
May 16, 2011Leonard E. Burman