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Do Republicans Really Want to Cut Taxes on the Wealthy and Raise Them on Everyone Else?

August 25, 2011 –
Of all the curious rhetoric floating around both Washington and the campaign trail, the strangest may be the demand of many Republicans that Congress raise...
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...
Federal Budget and Economy

More Budget Foxes, Fewer Hedgehogs

August 19, 2011 –
My latest column at the Christian Science Monitor : America's fiscal challenges are often portrayed as a conflict between hawks and doves. The real battle,...
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...
Federal Budget and Economy

What Can Obama Do to Fix the Economy?

August 9, 2011 –
With the U.S. economy spinning its wheels, demands are growing for President Obama to “do something.” But considering the nature of the slump and the...
Federal Budget and Economy

What the Stock Market Plunge Means for a Deficit Agreement

August 8, 2011 –
In some parallel universe, Congress and President Obama would respond to the stock market tumble, the S&P ratings downgrade, and growing public disgust at their...
Federal Budget and Economy

S&P's $2 Trillion Error

August 7, 2011 –
In the final hours before Friday’s historic downgrade, Standard & Poors gave Treasury an advance copy of its report. Amazingly, that report contained a $2...
Federal Budget and Economy

Five Things You Should Know About the S&P Downgrade

August 6, 2011 –
On Friday night, Standard and Poors announced that it was downgrading U.S. long-term sovereign debt from AAA to AA+ , the first such downgrade in...
Federal Budget and Economy

Ten Things You Should Know About the Debt Limit Deal

August 4, 2011 –
Now that we’ve had a few days to absorb the debt limit agreement signed by President Obama on Aug. 2, it might be useful to...
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...