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Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

How Zero-Sum Thinking May Affect Attitudes About Taxes

Do you think about the world as “zero-sum,” where resources are limited and my gain is your loss? Or do you believe that resources are...
April 19, 2024Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Remembering Daniel Kahneman, The Psychologist Who Upended Economics

Perhaps the two most influential economics thinkers of the past half-century were not economists at all. Psychologists Amos Tversky, who died young in 1996, and...
April 10, 2024Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Ramaswamy: A Dynamic Debate Performance Paired With An Incoherent Economic Agenda

Following the first Republican presidential primary debate, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy seems to be having a moment. That makes it a good time to explore his...
September 1, 2023Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Rick Scott Walks Back His Tax Increase Plan...Sort Of

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
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Could a Divided Congress Approve Biden’s Ambitious Tax Agenda? Maybe More Than You Think

The conventional wisdom is that President-elect Joe Biden’s ambitious tax agenda will die in a GOP Senate, but some elements could pass.
November 9, 2020Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Surprise: Biden and Trump Both Back A Modest Middle-Income Tax Cut

In one key respect, their plans appear surprisingly similar.
October 28, 2020Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Donald Trump’s Bullet Point Tax Agenda

President Trump is formally kicking off his reelection campaign with a couple of pages of bullet points. It makes for a thin tax policy agenda.
August 25, 2020Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

TPC’s New Podcast, Taxology, Explains Tax Policy, Starting with the Border Adjusted Tax

Baffled by the BAT? Confounded by the cash flow tax? Mystified by the mortgage deduction? To help sort it all out, the Tax Policy Center...
April 24, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Character Vs. Policy In The 2016 Presidential Campaign

Of the many remarkable things about this campaign, there is this: Americans are learning far more about Donald Trump’s sex life and Hillary Clinton’s emails...
November 1, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Taxes Are Not a Thing for Democrats This Year

Taxes are just not a thing for Democrats in this election season. The most remarkable take-away from reading the tax plank of the 2016 Democratic...
July 26, 2016Howard Gleckman