A wonderfully-titled new paper —The Tragedy of the Carrots—by Boston College law professor Brian Galle got me thinking about Solyndra, the failed solar panel company...
This year marks the 100 th Anniversary of California’s initiative process . In 1911, California famously adopted the direct initiative process and ballot box decision-making...
I'm trying a new thing in the blog--imagining a debate between a smart conservative and liberal economist on a contentious tax policy issue. Here liberal...
Distribution table for 2013, by income levels, showing the effects of the proposed 5.6% millionaire surtax in the Senate version of the American Jobs Act of 2011.
Distribution table for 2013, by income percentiles, showing the effects of the proposed 5.6% millionaire surtax in the Senate version of the American Jobs Act of 2011.
Conservatives like to say that President Obama has been responsible for massive tax increases. It is wonderful rhetoric that plays to the big tax image...
This 2013 distribution table shows the average pre-tax and post-tax incomes, across cash income quintiles, under various policies. These policies are: Pre-EGTRRA tax law, 2008 tax law, 2011 tax law, and the President's proposal both with and without the 2010 health reform act.
This 2013 distribution table shows the average effective tax rates, across cash income quintiles, under various policies. These policies are: Pre-EGTRRA tax law, 2008 tax law, 2011 tax law, and the President's proposal both with and without the 2010 health reform act.
PolitiFact’s Lou Jacobson recently pointed me to a blog post by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor complaining that President Obama’s proposal to limit itemized deductions...
In a contribution to the New York Times' Room for Debate, Roberton Williams suggests Congress scale back on tax subsidies in a way that protects America's hard-hit middle class.
Last week I had the opportunity to testify before two Ways and Means subcommittees--Select Revenue Measures and Oversight--about the way our tax system is used...
In the politics of taxation, nothing may be more controversial than the hot-button issue of small business. But important new research by career staffers at...
The CBO recently projected that the federal government will collect about 15.3 percent of GDP in revenue during the 2011 fiscal year. Although this is higher than 2009 or 2010, federal receipts will still be much lower than the average from 1981 to 2007. The slow economic recovery explains a
On September 21, TPC published several tables ( T11-0359 through 0362 ) that examine how effective tax rates vary within income groups. Those tables were...
Last week, the Census released the official poverty numbers for 2010. The proportion of people in poverty (15.1 percent) reached its second highest point since...
On Monday, the Administration released its deficit reduction blueprint . One part of the Administration’s proposal, which has received enormous attention, is that the Joint...
Donald Marron's testimony before the House Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures and the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means on energy policy and tax reform.
In a contribution to the Christian Science Monitor, Donald Marron discusses the five deadlines that will force Congress to address spending and government debt.
This distribution table shows the mean, median and various other percentiles of the effective individual income tax rate by cash income level, under a current law baseline, for calendar year 2011.
This distribution table shows the mean, median and various other percentiles of the effective individual income and payroll tax rate by cash income level, under a current law baseline, for calendar year 2011.
This distribution table shows the mean, median and various other percentiles of the effective individual income tax rate by cash income percentile, under a current law baseline, for calendar year 2011.
