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Mitt Romney

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Taxes Don’t Always Drive the Economy--Sometimes the Economy Drives Taxes

Don’t tell my Tax Policy Center colleagues I said this, but it isn’t always about taxes. If you listened to the presidential campaign this week,...
July 12, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Trimming Tax Breaks to Cut Rates is a Lot Harder Than It Looks

It won’t be impossible for pay for substantial individual tax rate reductions by cutting tax expenditures. But it will be very, very hard. The challenges...
July 10, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Will Enough People Enroll in Obamacare?

Earlier this week, I concluded that the Affordable Care Act’s tax on those who do not have health insurance will be both modest and difficult...
July 5, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Obamacare’s Uninsured Tax is a Mouse

The Affordable Care Act’s tax on those who choose not to buy health insurance was the linchpin of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the...
July 3, 2012Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Bowles-Simpson Budget Reform and Ecstatic Memory

Have you noticed that as the details of the tough budget reform proposed by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles fade into memory, more politicians are...
June 26, 2012Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Listen Closely When Romney Talks About Taxes

When Mitt Romney talks about his plan for tax reform, he is very careful to say two things: He wants to cut tax rates, and...
June 19, 2012Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Romney and Obama: Big Speeches, Little Vision

Yesterday, Mitt Romney laid out what his campaign said was his vision for health reform . Today, he followed that up with a talk on...
June 14, 2012Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Should We Delay the Tax Cut Debate Until Early 2013?

Over the past week or so, Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Glenn Hubbard have all made the same suggestion: Congress should extend all of the...
June 7, 2012Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

How a Delay in the Debt Limit Will Change America’s Fiscal Politics

By now, you know the great taxmageddon story: At the end of the year, a lame duck Congress and a new or newly re-elected president...
May 24, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Why Romney and Obama Pay the Taxes They Pay

By now, many readers of TaxVox know how much Barack Obama and Mitt Romney pay in taxes. But true tax wonks are more interested in...
April 26, 2012Roberton C. Williams