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Three Questions Policymakers Should Be Asking About The Foxconn Megadeal

Last week, President Trump and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced that Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, a major supplier of LCD screens to Apple, would receive $3...

August 1, 2017Megan Randall

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Scott Walker’s Replacement for the ACA Would Leave Many Uninsured

GOP presidential hopeful Scott Walker’s plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is built on a controversial framework of tax subsidies that Walker estimates would cost about $1 trillion over 10 years. The plan is already drawing heat from fellow GOP candidate Bobby Jindal, who called it “a new

August 20, 2015Howard Gleckman

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Why Did Scott Walker Commit $400 Million for a Pro Basketball Arena?

Yesterday, Wisconsin Governor—and GOP presidential hopeful--Scott Walker committed more than $400 million in taxpayer money to help build a new basketball arena for a group of wealthy investors. Walker, like many pols before him, fell for the promise of huge economic returns from a state-of-the art

August 13, 2015Howard Gleckman

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Plans, Expectations, and Avoidance

An outline of a safe plan: No sharp edges. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shared her tax agenda yesterday, but as Howard Gleckman notes, most of her proposals are familiar , including a Buffett tax on very-high income households and small business tax relief. She did not endorse

July 14, 2015Renu Zaretsky

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School’s Out: What If Parents Take the Tax Money and Run?

We moved last year—from Florida, a state with relatively poor public schools, to a strong school district in Michigan. Our property taxes are higher than the national and even county average, but like many families with school-age children, we are willing (and able) to pay them. We support our

June 3, 2015Renu Zaretsky

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What’s Up With the No Climate Tax Pledge?

Do you know about the No Climate Tax pledge ? I didn’t until I read a column over the weekend by the Washington Post ’s always-interesting Catherine Rampell. The vow is sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group closely associated with the Koch brothers. And it

June 2, 2015Howard Gleckman

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Spending Cuts, Surpluses and Sales Opportunities

The House GOP Budget: No tax reform details. The House Budget Committee unveiled a budget with $5.5 trillion in spending cuts that promises balance by 2024. Committee Chairman Tom Price is confident the budget will pass the House this week. However, TPC’s Howard Gleckman says there is no chance it

March 18, 2015Renu Zaretsky

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Tax Subsidies, Cuts, and Consequences

There are tax information troubles for ACA enrollees. When it comes to the Affordable Care Act and filing taxes, “sorting through all the necessary paperwork is hard to do, even for those of us whose day jobs are in tax policy,” writes TPC’s Ellen Steele , a tax-preparing volunteer with Community

February 23, 2015Renu Zaretsky

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A Replacement, A Vision, and Promises

An Obamacare replacement? Senate Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch, House Energy and Commerce chair Fred Upton, and GOP Senator Richard Burr have released their health reform plan, called the Patient CARE Act. The proposal, similar to a bill Hatch and Burr introduced last year, would repeal the

February 6, 2015Renu Zaretsky

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Digging Deeper into the President’s “Middle Class Economics” Plan

An analysis lays a foundation for debate. The TPC has a new paper on the distributional effects of the President’s tax proposals . His tax cuts primarily benefit low-income single workers and families with children. Households with very high incomes and substantial capital assets would pay more. A

February 2, 2015Renu Zaretsky