May 25, 2011
Today, at the request of the Peterson Foundation, an ideologically diverse group of six think tanks proposed their long-term solutions to the federal deficit problem...
May 24, 2011
As I noted a couple of weeks ago , California’s April income tax revenues were well above forecast levels. Many other states, especially those reliant...
May 22, 2011
We’ve all heard the allegation: President Obama wants to raise taxes on “small business.” But buried in that claim is a massive amount of confusion...
May 19, 2011
This morning, a panel of veteran international tax experts tried to put the U.S. struggle to fix its corporate tax system in broader perspective. Unfortunately,...
May 17, 2011
I spent this morning at one of those Washington institutions: the budget roundtable. Today’s (at the Aspen Institute) gave me a chance to pose a...
May 16, 2011
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, 2011
The American housing market is in trouble. Prices continue to fall, many would-be buyers can’t qualify for mortgages, sales remain sluggish, and the backlog of...
May 12, 2011
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. He wasn’t talking about taxes (the...
May 11, 2011
Last week, while admiring the seals frolicking on a San Diego beach, I read some good news about California’s tax collections. State officials had just...
May 11, 2011
Dear Jon, The Daily Show is my favorite TV show. I think you’re the smartest policy analyst on television. (Okay, as you prove time after...