Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle explains how the budget deal that will likely be reached will remain short of its goals, due to numerous technical difficulties in reaching numerical targets in the deal.

Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle busts myths around the flat tax and progressivity.

Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle offers a partial guide for thinking about tax reform.

Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle examines the goals of tax reformers.

Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle examines the pros and cons of flat taxes and flat grants in tax and expenditure policies.

Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle comments on Social Security privatization options, noting that none say much of anything about the current private pension system, its advantages and limitations, nor about the ways that new, mandated, private accounts would be integrated with private accounts...

Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle explains how raising the rate of contribution to private accounts by a significant amount, without a substantial increase in mandates or taxes might help clarify the Social Security privatization debate.

Because Social Security spends tax collections almost immediately, rather than putting them aside to fund future retirement costs, it is believed by many to reduce net national saving at a time when other private and public saving are considered too low. This low savings rate coincides with a...

Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle reveals key issues ignored by the press in the current legislative debates over adjusting the Consumer Price Index.

Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle gives the Treasury Department tips on how to make the most of their final months before the 2000 election--specifically with regard to Social Security.