In Washington, bad ideas never go away. Now two old tax breaks have resurfaced with the ostensible goal of creating jobs, despite plenty of evidence...

Every couple years, the Congressional Budget Office publishes a very scary document, The Long-Term Budget Outlook . As in previous reports, the conclusion is that...

Social Security has two obvious problems. While the system is not “broke,” as some insist, it will have only enough money to provide future retirees...

Sensible budget wonks of all political stripes understand that a solution to our looming budget crisis will require more tax revenues. The aging of the...

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...

A majority of Senate Republicans yesterday took a symbolic but hugely important vote to eliminate $6 billion in tax subsidies for the production of ethanol...

Last week , I argued that Governor Tim Pawlenty’s aspiration for 5% economic growth over a full decade, is implausible since the United States has...

As someone who spends her time thinking about how taxes affect low-income families – and ways to make it more rational – I can’t say...

Plenty. In his economic speech on Tuesday , presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty set out an ambitious goal for economic growth: Let’s grow the economy by...

In 2008, Barack Obama brought an all-star squad of centrist and center-left economists to the White House. Now, as he confronts a critical turning point...