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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Marco Rubio's gas tax cut would give state and local governments flexibility, and political fights

November 13, 2015 –
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio recently introduced a transportation plan that cuts the federal gas tax 80 percent—from 18.4 cents per...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Trump Proposes a Huge Tax Cut

September 28, 2015 –
Donald Trump, who likes superlatives, has weighed in with his version of a standard cut-the-rates, broaden-the-base tax reform . And like many other...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Cost of the Bush Tax Cuts, and What It Might Mean

September 10, 2015 –
While GOP presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has been reluctant to describe his tax plan as a tax cut, economists close to him have not. And newly-...
Federal Budget and Economy

Tax Cuts for Low- and Moderate Income Households May Be Much More Powerful Than Cuts for the Rich

April 21, 2015 –
It turns out that tax cuts for the job creators...don’t create very many jobs. By contrast, tax cuts for low- and moderate-income households can...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Payroll Tax Cuts May Boost the Economy More than You Think

January 29, 2013 –
Just as Congress allowed the 2011-12 payroll tax cut to expire, new research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that such tax...