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State and Local Issues

Public Safety or Speed Traps? The Conflicts of Interest Behind Fines and Fees

January 13, 2022 –
If you have ever been issued a speeding ticket, you probably grumbled about the government using you as a piggy bank. In our new research...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Is the TCJA Here to Stay?

December 28, 2021 –
Just based on its sheer size and scope, the Biden administration’s Build Back Better (BBB) agenda was always likely to shrink as it made its...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

TPC’s 2021 Lump Of Coal Award For The Worst Tax Policy Ideas Of The Year

December 22, 2021 –
Welcome to the Tax Policy Center’s annual Lump of Coal Award for the year’s biggest tax policy blunders, Build Back Better edition. Even by the...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Short Run Growth and Inflation Effects of Build Back Better Are Likely to Be Modest

November 17, 2021 –
A key issue in the congressional debate over President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) plan is how it would affect the economy over the next...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Build Back Better 2.0 Still Raises Taxes For High Income Households And Reduces Them For Others

November 11, 2021 –
In a new analysis , the Tax Policy Center estimates that the major tax changes in the latest version of President Biden’s Build Back Better...
Individual Taxes

A Carbon Tax is Not the Solution to Global Climate Change

October 5, 2021 –
The definition of insanity, according to a famous quotation (often mis-attributed to Albert Einstein) is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Clean Energy Tax Credits Can’t Do the Work of a Carbon Tax

October 5, 2021 –
As another season of record-breaking heat, wildfires, and hurricanes unfolds, Congress is debating how to address climate change and fund green infrastructure in its $3.5...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

TPC Experiments with Another Model to Estimate the Economic Effects of Tax Law Changes

July 21, 2021 –
The Tax Policy Center has traditionally measured the macroeconomic effects of tax changes based on historical experience and empirical estimates from the economics literature. But...

How Should Congress Fund Investments in The Internal Revenue Service’s Infrastructure?

July 7, 2021 –
Congress is moving toward rectifying the decade-long funding crisis at the IRS . The House is on track to adopt President Biden’s proposed $1.6 billion...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Paying for Infrastructure With Pixie Dust

June 29, 2021 –
President Biden and a bipartisan group of senators have agreed to the framework of a plan to boost infrastructure spending by about $579 billion. On...