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What’s Easier: Killing Aliens, Or Levying A Vehicle-Mileage Tax?

September 1, 2021 –
if we want more of a good thing, don’t tax it. So how should we think about the vehicle-mileage tax (VMT) that raises the costs of driving planet-friendly hybrid or electric vehicles?
Federal Budget and Economy

How Today’s Unsustainable Budget Is Stopping a Marshall Plan for Vaccines

August 30, 2021 –
In 1948, Congress and President Truman adopted the Marshall Plan that at its peak provided about 2 percent of total US gross domestic product to...

How Can Tax and Spending Policy Together Enhance The Wealth Of The Nation?

August 16, 2021 –
Buried in today’s partisan squabbles over President Biden’s ambitious domestic agenda is a fundamental question: How can government best increase the nation’s wealth? Does it...

Searching for Supply-Side Effects of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

July 6, 2021 –
The 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) was built on the idea that lower business and corporate tax rates, new domestic investment incentives, and...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Paying for Infrastructure With Pixie Dust

June 29, 2021 –
President Biden and a bipartisan group of senators have agreed to the framework of a plan to boost infrastructure spending by about $579 billion. On...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Deficit Is Likely To Be Bigger Than Biden Projects, But Not Because Of A Rosy Economic Forecast

June 2, 2021 –
Those of us who have been writing about the federal budgets for too long remember the sad history of presidents trotting out wildly optimistic economic...

Five Tax Questions to Ask When Looking at President Biden’s Budget

May 27, 2021 –
President Biden on Friday is set to unveil his first full budget along with Treasury’s Green Book, which will provide the first detailed look at...

Treasury Will Allow States to Take ARP Funds and Cut Taxes, With Some Guardrails

May 13, 2021 –
On Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department released much-anticipated guidance for the American Recovery Plan ’s (ARP) $350 billion in direct state and local aid ,...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Existing Budgetary Commitments Could Affect President Biden’s Domestic Policy Goals

May 13, 2021 –
The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying recession laid bare many of the needs of working families and children, as well as federal, state, and local governments’...
Individual Taxes

Monthly or Quarterly Child Tax Credit Payments? Both Have Value

April 28, 2021 –
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig told the Senate Finance Committee on April 13 that the agency could begin delivering monthly 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments...
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State Revenue Forecasts Before COVID-19 and Directions Forward

Lucy Dadayan
April 2, 2020

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