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The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Federal Budget and Economy

Spending Caps, Medicare Vouchers, and Magical Thinking

May 10, 2011 –
Want to know why caps on federal spending will never work? Just take a look at proposed Medicare vouchers that are included in the House-passed...
Individual Taxes

Who Pays No Income Tax? It is the Wrong Question

May 5, 2011 –
Would you rather get a tax cut of $1,000 or $1.4 million? I thought so. Would you change your answer if taking the smaller tax...
Federal Budget and Economy

Why I Hate Budget Caps

May 3, 2011 –
I hate budget caps. They are arbitrary and beg to be gamed. It is irresponsible to make one that is absolutely unbreakable, even in the...
Individual Taxes

Putting Together the Picture of Child Tax Provisions for Families

May 2, 2011 –
Tax credits and deductions provide substantial assistance to families with children at all income levels. However, the value of tax provisions varies sharply depending on...
Federal Budget and Economy

There They Go Again: The ‘People’s Budget’ and High Tax Rates

April 28, 2011 –
Will Donald Trump bring Barack Obama’s birth certificate to the Royal wedding? I have no idea, but now that I’ve made our Web optimization folks...
Individual Taxes

Why Should Taxes Be 18 Percent of GDP?

April 27, 2011 –
“The Path to Prosperity,” Congressman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) solution to federal budget deficits, called for keeping “overall revenue as a share of the economy at...
Federal Budget and Economy

Note to Rep. Bachmann: Hitting the Debt Limit Has Consequences

April 26, 2011 –
The other day, I blogged on the necessity of increasing the debt limit. And I got a remarkable response: The tea party and others on...
Individual Taxes

Is the Corporate Tax Going Away?

April 25, 2011 –
Individuals who just filed their taxes this year might be wondering why they face high tax rates when big corporations apparently manage to escape the...
Individual Taxes

Tax Expenditures are not Loopholes

April 22, 2011 –
George Orwell once wrote: “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” I am reminded of Orwell and his deep concern with the misuse...
Federal Budget and Economy

S&P, the Debt Limit, and Political Risk

April 21, 2011 –
So it has come to this: The biggest short-term risk of the U.S. defaulting on its sovereign debt is not that big spenders will have...
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Brief

The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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