September 25, 2012
Yesterday, Kevin Hassett, an American Enterprise Institute economist and informal adviser to Mitt Romney, insisted that Romney would not raise taxes on low- and middle-income...
September 19, 2012
About that 47 percent: Let me introduce you to Andrea. When I met her a couple of years ago, she was a home health aide...
September 18, 2012
The percentage of Americans who don’t pay income tax is making headlines again. However, the story hasn’t changed since I blogged about it last year...
September 14, 2012
If only Mitt Romney had paid attention to Ronald Reagan. There are so many things the former Massachusetts governor could learn from the former California...
September 13, 2012
Who pays the corporate income tax? It is one of the most vexing questions tax experts face. Now, to keep pace with the latest research,...
September 6, 2012
Is there a way for low- and moderate-income households who do not have bank accounts to receive tax refunds electronically? A new Urban Institute study...
September 7, 2012
We now know more about Joe and Jill Biden’s dating history than we do about what Biden and Barack Obama would do in a second...
September 4, 2012
Most policymakers and economists agree that Americans don’t save enough. But which government policy does a better job encouraging saving and investment: tax subsidies such...
August 31, 2012
Yes, political conventions are costly anachronisms. But, with patience and time, one can learn quite a lot about a political party by watching, or reading,...
August 30, 2012
In a recent paper , we showed that any revenue-neutral tax reform that included Governor Romney’s specific tax cuts and that met his stated goal...