Barack Obama

How a Payroll Tax Cut Boosts the Chances for Tax Reform

When Congress finally extends the payroll tax cut that is due to expire in a few weeks, it may also be taking another step down...

December 8, 2011Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Should Congress Extend the Payroll Tax Holiday?

Should Congress extend and expand the payroll tax cut it first passed a year ago? In a bizarre but not unexpected role reversal, Democrats insist...

November 29, 2011Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

It’s Time Stop Squabbling about the Bush Tax Cuts

As long as politicians keep squabbling about what to do about the Bush era tax cuts, we are doomed. There will be no serious deficit...

November 22, 2011Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Five Reasons Why the Deficit Super Committee Failed

To the surprise of few , Congress’ super committee is on the brink of failure--unable to agree on $1.2 trillion in budget savings as required...

November 21, 2011Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Five Lessons from the 1986 Tax Reform Act

October 22 is the 25 th anniversary of the landmark Tax Reform Act of 1986. For those of us who still remember that remarkable event,...

October 20, 2011Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Solyndra, Carrots, and Sticks

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...

October 11, 2011Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The Democrat’s Millionaire Tax: Smart Politics, Awful Policy

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid’s plan to fund a $445 billion stimulus, err, jobs bill with a 5.6 percent surtax on millionaires is not all...

October 6, 2011Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Is Obama Tax Hiker in Chief? Not Exactly

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...

October 4, 2011Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Eric Cantor, Tax Increases, and Soup Kitchens

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...

September 30, 2011Roberton C. Williams

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Obama’s Buffett Rule: Keep Your Eye on Capital Gains

President Obama didn’t quite get around to saying so when he rolled out his latest deficit reduction plan on Monday, but his Buffett Rule —that...

September 22, 2011Howard Gleckman