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Elizabeth Warren

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Warren’s Wealth Tax Revenue May Not Meet Expectations

Presidential hopeful and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has proposed a tax on wealth that would make ultra-millionaires pay 2 cents! Yep, that is what she...
August 5, 2019Janet Holtzblatt
Business Taxes: TaxVox

President Trump As Role Model: Avoiding Taxes For Sport

Do you consider not paying taxes “sport?” The President of the United States says he does. And that raises serious concerns about the stability of our volumtary tax system.
May 8, 2019Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

How Warren’s Promises May Exceed Her Ability To Pay, And Teach Voters An Important Lesson

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed a long list of detailed, ambitious, and very expensive campaign ideas. And she has described how she’d pay for them:...
April 24, 2019Howard Gleckman
: TaxVox

Four Ways To Tell When A Tax Proposal Is Serious

With the new Congress well into its legislative season and many Democratic presidential hopefuls in full campaign mode, policy ideas are flying fast and furious...
April 11, 2019Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

"Tell me what you want, what you really, really want..."

Do parents want subsidies for child care providers? Or cash for themselves?
I asked some parents to make a choice. Their response was perhaps not what Warren hoped for, given her proposed Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act.
March 6, 2019Renu Zaretsky
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

There Are Better Ways To Tax The Rich Than A Wealth Tax Or A 70 Percent Top Rate

Taxing the rich is suddenly all the rage among many of the Democratic party’s highest profile politicians. There is a better way to do it....
February 4, 2019Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Inside The Warren Vs. Harris Battle Over Tax Progressivity

Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) both want to be elected President of the United States in 2020. Both believe that the federal...
January 28, 2019Howard Gleckman
: TaxVox

New Chairs, New Resistance, and Maybe, New Taxes

As expected: Paul Ryan will succeed Dave Camp as House Ways & Means Chair. Representative Kevin Brady removed himself from consideration earlier this week, though he had more committee seniority. The full House GOP conference approved its Steering Committee’s chairmanship recommendations,
November 20, 2014Renu Zaretsky