welfare

What if the Outrage over Excessive Welfare Extended to the Tax Code?

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has created quite a stir with his estimates that every household below the poverty level receives an average of $168-a-day (or...

February 26, 2013Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Reduce Tax Rates on Low-Income Families by Extending Tax Phase-Outs

An ominous announcement for a House Ways & Means Committee joint hearing on “how welfare and tax benefits can discourage work” seemed a set-up to...

June 29, 2012Elaine Maag