Should Congress use a new measure of inflation to index the tax code? It sounds awfully technical—and it is—but shifting to what most economists believe...
President Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on corporate jets is the Democratic version of “waste, fraud and abuse”—a political attack on a target of opportunity...
Republicans are demanding a deficit-reduction package that’s entirely spending cuts. Democrats insist that revenues must also be included. Are these positions completely irreconcilable? Not if...
David Walker , a former Government Accountability Office head, thinks it’s a problem that half of Americans don’t pay federal income taxes. At the June...
In Washington, bad ideas never go away. Now two old tax breaks have resurfaced with the ostensible goal of creating jobs, despite plenty of evidence...
Every couple years, the Congressional Budget Office publishes a very scary document, The Long-Term Budget Outlook . As in previous reports, the conclusion is that...
Social Security has two obvious problems. While the system is not “broke,” as some insist, it will have only enough money to provide future retirees...
