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Individual Taxes

Better Than Flowers And Chocolate: TPC Releases Its Updated Marriage Penalty and Bonus Calculator

February 14, 2019 –
Just in time for Valentine’s Day! Before you ask your beloved to marry you tonight, you might want to check out the Tax Policy Center’s...
Individual Taxes

It’s About Your Total Tax Liability, Not Your Refund

February 12, 2019 –
People, if you want to know whether the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was good for you or not, stop obsessing about the size...

Congress Should Request The President’s Tax Returns

February 8, 2019 –
I testified before the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight yesterday on whether presidents, vice presidents, and candidates for these offices should disclose their tax...
Federal Budget and Economy

A Green New Deal Would Cost A Lot Of Green

February 7, 2019 –
The Green New Deal is the big new thing among progressive Democrats. Until today, it has been little more than a four words (much like...
Individual Taxes

Can Harris And Booker’s Plans Help Poor People Avoid Eviction?

February 7, 2019 –
Remember Evicted , Matthew Desmond’s harrowing account of the housing travails of low-income families in Milwaukee? Undoubtedly senators (and presidential hopefuls) Cory Booker and Kamala...
Federal Budget and Economy

America, We Have A Problem: The IRS Brain Drain

February 6, 2019 –
The ill-fated Apollo 13 space mission is a metaphor for a problem facing the country today: The IRS staffing crisis. But there are a couple of key differences, and they have nothing to do with the absence of Tom Hanks.
Individual Taxes

How Government Tax And Transfer Policy Promotes Wealth Inequality

February 5, 2019 –
Federal tax and spending policies are worsening the problem of economic inequality. But the tax breaks that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy are only part of...
Individual Taxes

There Are Better Ways To Tax The Rich Than A Wealth Tax Or A 70 Percent Top Rate

February 4, 2019 –
Taxing the rich is suddenly all the rage among many of the Democratic party’s highest profile politicians. There is a better way to do it....
Federal Budget and Economy

The Federal Deficit Is Headed For $1 Trillion. Should We Care?

January 29, 2019 –
In its annual budget update, the Congressional Budget Office projected yesterday that under current law the federal deficit is headed for $1 trillion by 2022...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Inside The Warren Vs. Harris Battle Over Tax Progressivity

January 28, 2019 –
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) both want to be elected President of the United States in 2020. Both believe that the federal...