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Federal Budget and Economy

Tax Reform Affects The Level Of Economic Output -- Not The Long-Run Growth Rate

September 18, 2017 –
President Trump and his top economic advisers often argue that a major tax reform would permanently boost the nation’s economic growth rate to 3 percent...

Come The Flood, Who Should Pay To Help?

September 5, 2017 –
Hurricane Harvey’s historic flooding has brought out the best in many people. They have put their lives in danger to save strangers, shared their food,...

The Nation’s Fiscal Outlook Has Not Improved

August 4, 2017 –
While policy makers and news headlines focus on debates about health care and tax policy, the U.S. fiscal outlook remains troubling and is a constraint...

A New Dynamic Analysis Confirms Estimates That A Trump-Like Tax Plan Would Add Trillions To the Deficit

July 27, 2017 –
A new “dynamic” analysis (one that includes macroeconomic effects) finds that tax cuts consistent with what the Trump Administration outlined in April would reduce federal...
Federal Budget and Economy

A Universal Basic Income? Right Debate, Wrong Answer

June 21, 2016 –
Recently, advocates have revived and extended an old idea: that government should give everyone, regardless of their economic circumstances, a universal basic income (UBI). For...
Federal Budget and Economy

About TSA, IRS, and Being a Washington Scapegoat

May 24, 2016 –
It is a familiar--and sad—Washington story. Start with an agency that deals extensively with the public. The agency stumbles. Congress cuts its...
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Federal Budget and Economy

The Highway Bill Takes Congress on a FAST Track to More Debt

December 3, 2015 –
Sometime within the next few days, Congress will pass, with great fanfare, what it proudly calls a $305 billion, five-year transportation bill . But...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Will Congress Fund Roads and Transit?

July 7, 2015 –
In 24 days, federal spending authority under the highway trust fund comes to an end. Without legislation to keep the program going and money to...
Federal Budget and Economy

Rx for a Double-dip Recession: Cut Government Spending by 15 Percent

June 7, 2011 –
Apparently nostalgic for recession, more than 100 House Republicans have proposed to cut federal spending by $550 billion in 2012. The Republican Study Committee (RSC)...
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A Proposal to Reform the Taxation of Corporate Income

  • Alan Viard
Eric Toder, Alan Viard
June 17, 2016

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