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Individual Taxes

Why Investors Pay Less Tax than the Rest of Us

August 31, 2011 –
After I wrote last week about Warren Buffett’s New York Times op-ed on the low tax rates paid by wealthy investors, Tax Policy Center visiting...
Individual Taxes

CBO’s Simple Story about the Deficit

August 26, 2011 –
A graph on the cover of the Congressional Budget Office’s summer budget update illustrates two policy paths we could pursue over the coming decade. One...
Individual Taxes

Not All Tax Breaks Are Created Equal

August 24, 2011 –
It has become fashionable (I am happy to say) for politicians to talk about ending or at least scaling back tax subsidies . But pols...
Individual Taxes

Was Buffett Right? Do Workers Pay More Tax than Their Bosses?

August 23, 2011 –
When Warren Buffett called for higher taxes on the wealthy in a New York Times op-ed last week, the billionaire investor argued that he and...
Individual Taxes

Federal Debt Drama and What It Means for State and Local Governments

August 22, 2011 –
Below is a post I did for Metrotrends on Friday. Financial markets have been on a pretty turbulent roller-coaster following the last minute bargain Congress...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Coming Payroll Tax Role Reversal

August 18, 2011 –
In a couple of weeks, President Obama will ask Congress to extend this year’s payroll tax cut. It will surely become a classic Washington double-reverse...
Individual Taxes

“Corporations are People” But Which People?

August 12, 2011 –
In a shouting match with a demonstrator at the Iowa State Fair yesterday, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney argued against raising corporate taxes, asserting that...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Congress Can Cap Tax Breaks

August 11, 2011 –
Sooner or later, Congress will realize it needs new revenues to help balance the budget, and trimming tax subsidies is the way to get them...
Individual Taxes

Congressional Waste: The FAA and Airlines Taxes

August 10, 2011 –
Congressional infighting last month over union rules and subsidies for small airports caused a lapse in authorization for the Federal Aviation Administration as well as...
Federal Budget and Economy

Unfinished Business after the Debt Deal

August 3, 2011 –
Congress headed off for its summer vacation yesterday, exhausted after the protracted wrangling over the debt limit that ended with a whimper when President Obama...