TaxVox

The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Federal Budget and Economy

Time Management and the Budget Debate

March 23, 2011 –
In a guest column at CNN Money , I suggest that Washington is suffering from time-management issues in its approach to the budget. America faces...
Federal Budget and Economy

TPC Looks at the Obama Budget and Taxes

March 22, 2011 –
Remember President Obama’s 2012 budget—the fiscal framework he released in February. You’d be forgiven if you’ve forgotten. After all, Washington can’t seem to stop squabbling...
Individual Taxes

A Deal to be Done on Medicare and Health Reform

March 17, 2011 –
Could Congress replace the current Medicare system with a voucher program, as former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin and House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan...
Federal Budget and Economy

The GOP Choice: Smaller Government or Lower Deficits

March 15, 2011 –
“The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit." Grover Norquist You’ve got to give Grover...
Federal Budget and Economy

Conrad Builds a Case Against Tax Subsidies

March 10, 2011 –
Interesting to see Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) working hard to build a case for trimming the $1 trillion in tax breaks that...
Individual Taxes

State and Local Pay vs. Private Pay

March 9, 2011 –
Do state and local workers get paid more or less than their private sector counterparts? That old question has taken on renewed life with the...
State and Local Issues

The Battle over Internet Sales Taxes

March 8, 2011 –
The battle over Internet sales taxes, simmering for more than a decade, is boiling over. And I think somebody bought the tea kettle on Amazon.com...
Individual Taxes

Most Businesses Won’t Benefit from Corporate Tax Reform

March 4, 2011 –
To the Obama Administration, tax reform means corporate tax restructuring. Both the president and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner have argued that at least the first...
Individual Taxes

Six Thoughts on Taxes and Small Business

March 3, 2011 –
This morning I appeared at hearing of the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee on " Small Businesses and Tax...
State and Local Issues

Why do cash-strapped states subsidize moviemakers?

March 2, 2011 –
While states are trying to balance their budgets by cutting education and health care as well as aid to local governments, governors are fighting to...