TaxVox

The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Federal Budget and Economy

Deficit Reduction. Tax Reform, and Budget Baselines

November 30, 2010 –
How can it be that one commentator can blast the tax reform plan proposed a few weeks by the co-chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission...
Federal Budget and Economy

Deficit Plans Cut Marginal Tax Rates, But Raise Average Rates, for High Earners

November 23, 2010 –
Liberal critics of the deficit reduction and tax reform plans that surfaced over the past couple of weeks have been blasting them for the sin...
Federal Budget and Economy

Bipartisan Policy Center Debt Plan Shifts Benefits to Childless Workers

November 22, 2010 –
The debt reduction and tax reform plan proposed this week by the Bipartisan Policy Center does more than cut the deficit. The task force, chaired...
Individual Taxes

Americans Against Tax Reform

November 19, 2010 –
On Wednesday, the Bipartisan Policy Center Debt Reduction Task Force—a bipartisan group of former politicians and government officials—released a plan to tame the national debt...
Federal Budget and Economy

Bowles-Simpson Deficit Plan Taxes Health Insurance, But Would We Owe Payroll Tax Too?

November 19, 2010 –
One of the most dramatic elements of the tax reform plan offered by the chairs of President Obama’s deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson,...
Federal Budget and Economy

Deficit Reduction, The Tax Code, and the Social Safety Net

November 18, 2010 –
The tax system serves two purposes. It is supposed to collect enough money to fund government (a job not well done) and it helps maintain...
Individual Taxes

New and Improved: Tax Calculator 2.0

November 18, 2010 –
In response to your comments, the Tax Policy Center has revised its tax calculator . The calculator’s popularity and use have more than pleased us...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Bold, Controversial Stab at the Deficit and Tax Reform

November 17, 2010 –
Another day. Another bold and controversial tax reform plan. This is getting very interesting. Today, the privately-funded Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) released its own far-reaching...
Federal Budget and Economy

Bowles-Simpson Deficit Plan Would Hike Taxes Across-The-Board

November 16, 2010 –
Critics of the deficit reduction plan offered by the co-chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission have blasted it for being both a tax hike (bad...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Bowles-Simpson “Chairmen’s Mark” Deficit Reduction Plan

November 12, 2010 –
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairs of President Obama’s Deficit Commission, have released a “ Chairmen’s Mark ,” a broad plan to reduce the federal...