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Federal Budget and Economy

Let's Eliminate the Debt Limit

July 18, 2011 –
My latest column at the Christian Science Monitor : America's leaders need to get to yes on a budget deal – one that marries substantial...
Federal Budget and Economy

Job-Killing Spending Cuts

July 15, 2011 –
There has been a lot of talk in Washington recently about “job-killing tax increases.” Raising taxes, the argument goes, would lead businesses to hire fewer...
Federal Budget and Economy

Debt Limit Madness

July 14, 2011 –
Let me see if I have this right: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has effectively embraced the debt limit plan first offered months ago...
Federal Budget and Economy

Balanced Budget Amendments Are Not Always What They Seem

July 13, 2011 –
A constitutional amendment that would require a balanced federal budget has again gained favor, especially among Republicans. The proponents should be forced to answer an...
Federal Budget and Economy

John Boehner’s Moment of Truth

July 12, 2011 –
In July 2000, under immense pressure from President Clinton, the Israeli government made Yasser Arafat a remarkable offer: It would recognize a Palestinian state that...
Federal Budget and Economy

Should Congress Cut the Deficit By Changing the Way it Indexes Taxes for Inflation?

July 7, 2011 –
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...
Federal Budget and Economy

A Big Error in the Senate Republicans’ Balanced Budget Amendment

July 6, 2011 –
Senate Republicans made a striking error in the balanced budget amendment they introduced last week . As written, the amendment would limit federal spending far...
Individual Taxes

Hiking Taxes on Corporate Jets: Obama’s Version of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

July 5, 2011 –
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...
Individual Taxes

A Tax By Any Other Name

June 30, 2011 –
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." William Shakespeare If I understand correctly, Congressional...
Federal Budget and Economy

Spending in Disguise

June 29, 2011 –
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...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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