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Individual Taxes

Let’s Bribe Taxpayers To Give Up Tax Breaks

June 17, 2011 –
Sensible budget wonks of all political stripes understand that a solution to our looming budget crisis will require more tax revenues. The aging of the...
Individual Taxes

How Michele Bachmann Would Knock 20,000 Millionaires off the Tax Rolls

June 16, 2011 –
In a revealing interview with Steve Moore of The Wall Street Journal , Representative Michele Bachmann(R-MN) called for repealing taxes on capital gains. She also...
Federal Budget and Economy

The GOP, Ethanol, and the No-Tax Pledge

June 15, 2011 –
A majority of Senate Republicans yesterday took a symbolic but hugely important vote to eliminate $6 billion in tax subsidies for the production of ethanol...
Individual Taxes

How Tariff Policy Undermines Other Tax Policy Goals

June 14, 2011 –
As someone who spends her time thinking about how taxes affect low-income families – and ways to make it more rational – I can’t say...
Individual Taxes

How Ambitious is Pawlenty’s Growth Goal?

June 10, 2011 –
Plenty. In his economic speech on Tuesday , presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty set out an ambitious goal for economic growth: Let’s grow the economy by...
Federal Budget and Economy

Rx for a Double-dip Recession: Cut Government Spending by 15 Percent

June 7, 2011 –
Apparently nostalgic for recession, more than 100 House Republicans have proposed to cut federal spending by $550 billion in 2012. The Republican Study Committee (RSC)...
Federal Budget and Economy

Carbon Taxes: The Levy (Some) Conservatives Love

June 2, 2011 –
You know the Washington Rule: Liberals will never support spending cuts and conservatives will never back tax increases. Yet, there is one new levy that...
Individual Taxes

Medicare Vouchers Won’t Reduce Health Spending

May 31, 2011 –
The House Republican plan to replace Medicare with vouchers could lower national health spending in only one of two ways: Either seniors would respond to...
Individual Taxes

Don’t Cut the Gas Tax for Summer Holidays, Double It

May 27, 2011 –
I woke up yesterday morning to news that the Comptroller of Maryland is urging the state to eliminate its 23.5 cent gas tax for all...
Individual Taxes

Sunny days ahead? Or is this just the silver lining to federal tax system clouds?

May 24, 2011 –
As I noted a couple of weeks ago , California’s April income tax revenues were well above forecast levels. Many other states, especially those reliant...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

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

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