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A Penny for Your Sugar: Setting a Price on Sin

What do you have to drink in your refrigerator? I’ve got kids in grade school, and our fridge always holds their favorite: Juice boxes filled with 100% apple juice. I felt pretty good about that “100%” until I looked at the label. There are 18 grams of sugar in one 6.75-ounce serving. Coca Cola?

April 1, 2015Renu Zaretsky

: TaxVox

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

: TaxVox

Taxed Reactions and Revenue Rules

House GOP on the President’s tax proposals: “Meh.” House Ways and Means Chair Paul Ryan told Treasury Secretary Jack Lew yesterday that “You have gradually, grudgingly taken a few steps in my opinion in the right direction… It’s progress… Not a lot. But we’ll take it.” Ryan and his colleagues

February 4, 2015Renu Zaretsky

: TaxVox

Taxes: To Be Considered, Rejected, or Collected

The White House plans to release its budget on February 2. It would be the first time since 2010 that the Administration would meet the deadline for the roll-out. The Hill reports that the OMB hopes such timeliness will restore some discipline to an old and broken-down process . Broken down perhaps

January 9, 2015Renu Zaretsky