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Targeted, Industry-Specific Tax Breaks Would Be A Terrible Response To Coronavirus

President Trump seems to want Congress to pass tax breaks for industries hard-hit by collapsing demand in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. While we...

March 11, 2020Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Tax Cuts Won’t Treat the Coronavirus or Rebuild Broken Supply Chains

President Trump and some members of Congress are floating the idea of new tax cuts to respond to the growing threat of the novel Coronavirus...

March 3, 2020Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Did President Trump Just Throw Corporations, and Senate Republicans, Under the Bus?

In his press conference on Wednesday, President Trump raised more than a few eyebrows by saying he’d be willing to support “adjustments ” to the...

November 9, 2018Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

There Will Be No Middle-Class Tax Cut This Week. Or Next Month

Pundits are breathlessly speculating about what President Trump’s promise to cut taxes for the middle class by 10 percent could possibly mean. They are wasting...

October 25, 2018Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Why The TCJA Is Unlikely To Help Republicans In the Coming Congressional Elections

Did Republicans make a political mistake rushing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) through Congress in less than two months in late 2017? In...

August 29, 2018Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Congress and President Trump Are Spending Money and Cutting Taxes Like There Is No Tomorrow

What is the difference between Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson, and President Trump and Congress? Wilson, you may recall, spent last Sunday handing out an estimated...

July 26, 2018Howard Gleckman

: TaxVox

What Republicans and Democrats Can Learn from “The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight”

In red states like Oklahoma , Kentucky , and West Virginia , teachers forced legislators to confront how low-tax policies have starved their education systems...

April 20, 2018Vanessa Williamson

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

What Singapore and Germany Can Teach The US About Fiscal Policy

The US—with a projected 2018 federal budget deficit of 4 percent of Gross Domestic Product and an economy running at close to full employment-- just...

February 22, 2018Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Starving the Beast? The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Seems to Be Feeding It

For decades, a guiding principle for many conservatives was that tax cuts not only boost the economy directly but also by shrinking the size of...

February 6, 2018Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The Final Tax Bill Falls Far Short Of President Trump’s Campaign Promises

The Final Tax Bill Falls Far Short Of President Trump’s Campaign Promises The final version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that Congress is...

December 18, 2017Howard Gleckman