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Federal Budget and Economy

PAYGO in the House

January 11, 2011 –
In one of their first actions after taking control of the House of Representatives last week, the new Republican majority passed their budget rules for...
Federal Budget and Economy

Johnny Depp and the New Tax Law

December 17, 2010 –
When the President signs the big tax deal later today, will he be cutting income taxes for most families or sparing them a tax hike?...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Obama-GOP Tax Deal May Be Bipartisan, But It Isn't Stimulus and It Isn't Smart

December 16, 2010 –
A modest thought experiment: Here is a check for $858 billion. Your job is to boost short-term economic growth. What would you do with the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Obama-GOP Deal: A Tax Hike for the Working Poor

December 8, 2010 –
Ever since the 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama has argued passionately for extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all but the richest 2 percent of...
Individual Taxes

The Lame-Duck Congress: So Many Tax Issues, So Little Time

December 6, 2010 –
As usual in December, personal finance columns are filled with end-of-year tax advice—all those things you should do before New Year’s to cut your tax...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Obama Deficit Panel’s Tax Reform Version 2.0

December 1, 2010 –
The chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission have refined—in some key ways—their broad-based tax reform plan. Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson didn’t change their basic...
Federal Budget and Economy

Deficit Reduction. Tax Reform, and Budget Baselines

November 30, 2010 –
How can it be that one commentator can blast the tax reform plan proposed a few weeks by the co-chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission...
Federal Budget and Economy

Deficit Plans Cut Marginal Tax Rates, But Raise Average Rates, for High Earners

November 23, 2010 –
Liberal critics of the deficit reduction and tax reform plans that surfaced over the past couple of weeks have been blasting them for the sin...
Federal Budget and Economy

Bipartisan Policy Center Debt Plan Shifts Benefits to Childless Workers

November 22, 2010 –
The debt reduction and tax reform plan proposed this week by the Bipartisan Policy Center does more than cut the deficit. The task force, chaired...
Federal Budget and Economy

Bowles-Simpson Deficit Plan Taxes Health Insurance, But Would We Owe Payroll Tax Too?

November 19, 2010 –
One of the most dramatic elements of the tax reform plan offered by the chairs of President Obama’s deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson,...