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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Is Obama Tax Hiker in Chief? Not Exactly

October 4, 2011 –
Conservatives like to say that President Obama has been responsible for massive tax increases. It is wonderful rhetoric that plays to the big tax image...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Eric Cantor, Tax Increases, and Soup Kitchens

September 30, 2011 –
PolitiFact’s Lou Jacobson recently pointed me to a blog post by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor complaining that President Obama’s proposal to limit itemized deductions...
Individual Taxes

Taxes and Energy Policy

September 29, 2011 –
Last week I had the opportunity to testify before two Ways and Means subcommittees--Select Revenue Measures and Oversight--about the way our tax system is used...
Individual Taxes

Obama’s Buffett Rule: Keep Your Eye on Capital Gains

September 22, 2011 –
President Obama didn’t quite get around to saying so when he rolled out his latest deficit reduction plan on Monday, but his Buffett Rule —that...
Federal Budget and Economy

Debating the Buffett Rule

September 22, 2011 –
On Monday, the Administration released its deficit reduction blueprint . One part of the Administration’s proposal, which has received enormous attention, is that the Joint...
Federal Budget and Economy

On The President's Recommendations to the Joint Select Committee

September 19, 2011 –
Today, President Obama outlined proposals to reduce the medium-term federal budget deficit. His proposal would pay for the $447 billion stimulus package he proposed last...
Federal Budget and Economy

What the Great Budget Debate Is Really About

September 15, 2011 –
Want to know what the Great Budget Debate of 2011 is really about? Ask Congressional Budget Office director Doug Elmendorf (who was a Tax Policy...
Federal Budget and Economy

Obama’s Cap on Tax Deductions: Not What It Seems

September 13, 2011 –
It turns out that President Obama’s plan to limit the benefit of itemized deductions is much more than that. Not only would it reduce tax...
Individual Taxes

Why the Tax Code is a Mess, Graphically

September 12, 2011 –
I just came across this bar chart, which illustrates graphically why the tax code is such a mess. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) is...
Federal Budget and Economy

Obama's Jobs Plan: Great Theater, Uncertain Policy

September 9, 2011 –
When you get right down to it, the jobs plan President Obama proposed before a joint session of Congress last night was built on three...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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