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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...
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...
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...
Federal Budget and Economy

What Would Happen if Congress Rewrote the Mortgage Interest Deduction?

March 1, 2011 –
The deduction for interest on home mortgages may be the most beloved of all tax subsidies. A politician needs only to muse about repealing or...
Individual Taxes

The Cheesehead Standoff and States’ Budget Crises

February 25, 2011 –
Wisconsin’s ongoing battle over the future of public sector unions has put the question in stark relief: Is public employee compensation causing the states’ current...
Federal Budget and Economy

Can Tax and Social Security Heresy Lead to a Budget Deal?

February 24, 2011 –
Ideological heresy may not quite be breaking out all over Washington, but in the growing debate over the burgeoning debt, there are helpful hints of...
Federal Budget and Economy

Why Obama Punted on Deficit Reduction

February 22, 2011 –
The latest Republican talking point is that President Obama is “punting” on his fiscal responsibilities by not proposing deep cuts in Medicare and Social Security...
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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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