Daily Deduction

Time keeps ticking, reform keeps waiting.

February 18, 2016 –
How do the GOP presidential candidate tax plans stack up against one another? TPC tells the story in two charts. International tax reform takes the...

“The future’s so bright, I gotta’ wear rose-colored shades.”

February 17, 2016 –
Sunny predictions? They’re not just for GOP tax plans anymore. Former chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Clinton and Obama...

Simple is as simple costs.

February 16, 2016 –
Ted Cruz has a very simple, very expensive, and very regressive tax plan. The GOP presidential hopeful would make big changes to today’s tax code but...

A Definite Crisis, Maybe an Evasion, and Lots of Talk

February 15, 2016 –
There’s a “hot mess” of a budget crisis in Louisiana. The legislature began an emergency session over the weekend. Lawmakers need to close a $943...

Cuts, Refunds, and a Ban

February 11, 2016 –
What better way to spend Valentine's Day weekend than with presidential contenders? It's President's Day weekend, too, after all. Last night...

Huge Tax Returns, Huge Spending Problems

February 10, 2016 –
A Trump dump of tax returns will come soon, maybe… GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he plans to release his “very big” tax returns “...

The President Punches Up

February 9, 2016 –
President Obama released a $4.1 trillion budget yesterday. TPC’s Howard Gleckman says the plan includes about $3 trillion in tax hikes over ten years...

Second Chances and Sweet Relief

February 8, 2016 –
For some: A new sign-up period for the Affordable Care Act. People who received tax credits to subsidize their ACA coverage in 2014 were supposed to...

Budget Hearings, Saving, and Entertaining

February 7, 2016 –
The President’s budget will be out tomorrow. Will anyone notice? There is almost always something perfunctory about the last budget of an outgoing...

A Budget, Capital, Growth, and Transparency 


February 5, 2016 –
Last night's debate was... an actual debate. Moderators barely spoke and Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders explored (and...