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New Tax Credit Could End Poverty For US Workers And Boost the Middle Class

May 21, 2019 –
In a new paper , I propose a universal earned income tax credit (UEITC)—a one-for-one match on the first $10,000 of earnings delivered through a...

Alice Rivlin Made State and Local Governments Better, Too

May 20, 2019 –
Our Tax Policy Center (TPC) colleague Bill Gale – no slouch when it comes to diagnosing federal budget ills and suggesting remedies – says he...

The Blessed Alice

May 15, 2019 –
Alice Rivlin made the world a better place in so many ways. She will forgive me for ignoring most of them in this brief essay...
Federal Budget and Economy

Thank You, Alice Rivlin

May 15, 2019 –
Alice Rivlin, who died yesterday at age 88, was a policy legend. She also was a kind, generous, and extraordinarily tough woman. Over more than...
Business Taxes

For Many Households, Trump’s Tariffs Could Wipe Out The Benefits of the TCJA

May 14, 2019 –
Business Taxes

President Trump As Role Model: Avoiding Taxes For Sport

May 8, 2019 –
Do you consider not paying taxes “sport?” The President of the United States says he does. And that raises serious concerns about the stability of our volumtary tax system.
Federal Budget and Economy

The Post-TCJA Economy Continues To Grow

May 7, 2019 –
The beginning of the US economy’s second year under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was largely positive, though some troubling signs lurked just beneath...
Individual Taxes

Janet And Her Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Filing Season (With Apologies To Judith Viorst)

May 2, 2019 –
I believe that every person in the tax policy game—from members of the tax-writing committees to research assistants at the Tax Policy Center—should compute their...
Individual Taxes

Washington’s Theater of Infrastructure: The Trick Is To Get The Joke

May 1, 2019 –
Yesterday was a classic example of Washington theater at its best. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer left a White House...
State and Local Issues

Are Public Pension And Benefit Shortfalls And Local Taxes Worthy Of A Neighborhood Duel?

May 1, 2019 –
Our local elected officials were debating a new tax to help offset a big public pension shortfall... If people dueled in 2019 like Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton did in 1804, a couple of township trustees might have been drawing pistols at dawn.