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Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

The Ryan Budget Plan May Be the New Centerpiece of Campaign 2012

Already, the Romney campaign insists that voters should pay no attention to Paul Ryan’s fiscal agenda. It is the Romney-Ryan tax and budget plan, they...
August 13, 2012Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Bowles-Simpson Budget Reform and Ecstatic Memory

Have you noticed that as the details of the tough budget reform proposed by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles fade into memory, more politicians are...
June 26, 2012Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Ryan Would Shift the Fiscal Burden to Low and Middle-Income Households

The budget proposal House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released last week is, essentially, an effort to have low- and middle-class households bear the...
March 27, 2012William G. Gale
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan: More Big Tax Cuts for the Rich

No surprise here, but the tax cuts in Paul Ryan’s 2013 budget plan would result in huge benefits for high-income people and very modest—or no—...
March 23, 2012Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

The Budget Message Paul Ryan Really Sent

Paul Ryan may not have intended it, but his 2013 budget is the strongest argument I’ve seen for why any serious fiscal plan must include...
March 22, 2012Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Will Obama’s 2013 Budget Raise or Lower Taxes? Yes.

Republicans like to say President Obama is a chronic, unrepentant tax-raiser. Obama himself used to say he was a tax-cutter but now touts himself as...
March 21, 2012Roberton C. Williams
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Ryan's Mystery Meat Budget

I am weary of mystery meat. The latest serving was dished out today by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), who released a fiscal...
March 20, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

A Medicare Reform Plan That Just Might Work

On a day when Washington partisans couldn’t even figure out (yet again) how to keep the government running, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House Budget...
December 15, 2011Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

It’s Time Stop Squabbling about the Bush Tax Cuts

As long as politicians keep squabbling about what to do about the Bush era tax cuts, we are doomed. There will be no serious deficit...
November 22, 2011Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Perry’s Free Lunch Flat Tax

There is lots we still don’t know about GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry’s tax and budget plan . But I am pretty sure of one...
October 25, 2011Howard Gleckman