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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Should We Delay the Tax Cut Debate Until Early 2013?

June 7, 2012 –
Over the past week or so, Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Glenn Hubbard have all made the same suggestion: Congress should extend all of the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Better Base Case

June 5, 2012 –
The Congressional Budget Office’s latest update , released today, provides a snapshot of fiscal policy in the short run, the medium term, and the long...
Federal Budget and Economy

Is the GOP Tax Reform Strategy a Fiscal Trap?

May 31, 2012 –
I recently blogged on Doug Holtz-Eakin’s four-step framework for tax reform. His roadmap—first agree on a progressive tax code, a top rate, and the total...
Federal Budget and Economy

How a Delay in the Debt Limit Will Change America’s Fiscal Politics

May 24, 2012 –
By now, you know the great taxmageddon story: At the end of the year, a lame duck Congress and a new or newly re-elected president...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

A Path Forward on Tax Reform

May 22, 2012 –
At the National Tax Association’s spring conference last week, former Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Holtz-Eakin laid out a path to tax reform in four...
Federal Budget and Economy

Fixing Medicare's Double-Counting Problem

May 18, 2012 –
Last week I argued that budgeting for Medicare's hospital insurance program is flawed . Today, I offer two ways to fix it (and reject a...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Boehner/Obama Fiscal Brawl

May 17, 2012 –
Listening to Barack Obama and John Boehner over the past few days put me in mind of two testosterone-addled 22-year olds preparing for a bar...
Individual Taxes

Taxing the London Whale

May 15, 2012 –
Now that a once-obscure J.P. Morgan Chase derivatives trader named Bruno Iksil has become infamous as the London Whale, I suppose it is time to...
Individual Taxes

The Fight Over Medicare Double Counting

May 9, 2012 –
The recent double-counting dispute isn’t just about politics; it also reveals a flaw in budgeting for Medicare Part A. Budget experts are waging a spirited...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Politics of Austerity

May 8, 2012 –
Europe is undergoing a massive political upheaval. You may have noticed. Caught in the wake of deep recession, painfully high unemployment, bank failures, and growing...