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Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
Want to know why the budget deficit is enormous and growing? One reason is that when one political party in Congress proposes new tax cuts...
December 4, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
If the country avoids breaching the debt limit in the next few months , you may not have Wall Street volatility to thank. Or even...
May 9, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
Joe Manchin Pulled The Plug On Tax Increases. What Happens Next? Conservative Democrat Joe Manchin (D-WV) may have effectively sealed the fate of President Biden’s...
July 19, 2022Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has proposed an 11-point plan to “Rescue America” including this : “All Americans should...
February 24, 2022Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Welcome to the Tax Policy Center’s annual Lump of Coal Award for the year’s biggest tax policy blunders, Build Back Better edition. Even by the...
December 22, 2021Howard Gleckman
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
Aid for state and local governments remains a sticking point in Congressional deliberations over additional relief to address the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic...
December 10, 2020Lucy DadayanKim S. Rueben
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
By embracing a $908 billion bipartisan pandemic relief plan , congressional Democratic leaders may have jump-started long-dormant talks over short-term economic aid. A nudge by...
December 3, 2020Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
The conventional wisdom is that President-elect Joe Biden’s ambitious tax agenda will die in a GOP Senate, but some elements could pass.
November 9, 2020Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
When Congress returns from its summer break on July 20, its primary job (really, its only job) is to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Congress...
July 8, 2020Howard Gleckman
: TaxVox
Some ideas are more substantive than others.
April 11, 2019Howard Gleckman