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Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
A First Look At The Revenue Provisions Of Biden’s 2024 Budget President Biden’s 2024 budget would raise taxes by more than $4.5 trillion over the...
March 9, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
House Republicans say they want to balance the federal budget in 10 years by cutting spending only, and seem to have received a promise from...
January 17, 2023Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), who last February proposed taxing millions of low-income households that currently pay no income tax, has released a new version that...
June 10, 2022Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
Should Congress Use Tax Hikes To Fight Inflation? In a Monday Wall Street Journal column (paywall), President Biden urged Congress to help fight inflation by...
June 2, 2022Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The most important thing to know about the tax bill proposed by House Ways & Means Committee Richard Neal (D-MA) is that it’s big. The...
September 14, 2021Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
Those of us who have been writing about the federal budgets for too long remember the sad history of presidents trotting out wildly optimistic economic...
June 2, 2021Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
When Joe Biden ran for president, his campaign platform included dozens of relatively specific tax proposals. They ranged from expanding refundable tax credits for low-...
May 21, 2021Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox
Could the corporate blowback against GOP efforts to rewrite voting rules in Georgia and other states drive congressional Republicans to accept some of President Biden’s...
April 20, 2021Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
With improbable Democratic wins in both Georgia Senate runoff elections, President-elect Joe Biden has an opportunity to govern with a congressional majority—though one that will...
January 6, 2021Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Is Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden proposing to raise taxes on low- and middle-income households? He emphatically says no. President Trump and his allies say...
September 1, 2020Howard Gleckman