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Warren’s Plan to Tax Assets And Returns To Those Assets Is Unrealistic

November 7, 2019 –
Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has proposed a number of new taxes on high-income households. Add them up and many of the very wealthiest could pay marginal effective tax rates of more than 100 percent.

Warren’s Medicare For All “Employer Medicare Contribution” Is A Distortionary And Regressive Tax

November 5, 2019 –
On Friday, Elizabeth Warren released her financing plan for Medicare for All . It is predictably wonky and politically courageous—new spending is way more popular...

Understanding Warren’s Medicare For All Employer Tax

November 1, 2019 –
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has, as promised, released a plan to pay for her Medicare for All health insurance plan. She has come up...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Working Families Tax Relief Act Provides Substantial Benefits - And Misses Opportunity

September 26, 2019 –
Democrats are focused on passing the Working Families Tax Relief Act (WFTRA), and for good reason. If passed, the WFTRA would provide about $ 85...

Balancing Hate, The First Amendment, And Tax-Exempt Status

September 25, 2019 –
Is hate speech constitutionally protected? Do groups that express hate in their words and deeds deserve tax-exempt status? Is the IRS equipped to judge what...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Warren’s Wealth Tax Revenue May Not Meet Expectations

August 5, 2019 –
Presidential hopeful and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has proposed a tax on wealth that would make ultra-millionaires pay 2 cents! Yep, that is what she...

Rethinking The Presidential Election Campaign Fund

July 25, 2019 –
When you filed your tax return last spring, did you check off the "Presidential Election Campaign" box on the Form 1040? Didn’t think so. Hardly...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Ways & Means Committee Takes Its Demand For Trump’s Tax Returns To Court

July 2, 2019 –
The House Ways and Means Committee today filed suit in federal court demanding President Trump’s 2013-2019 tax returns. The Committee says it is seeking Trump’s...
Individual Taxes

The Economic Security Project Proposes A Simpler And More Generous Tax Credit For Low-Income Workers And Caregivers

July 2, 2019 –
Expanding the earned income tax credit (EITC) has support from a wide range of policy experts. Yet the expansion ideas come in many different forms...

Alice Rivlin: The George Washington Of The Congressional Budget Office

June 20, 2019 –
On June 21, the family and friends of Alice Rivlin will join with much of Washington’s public policy community to celebrate her life and extraordinary...