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Federal Budget and Economy

What Will the Debt Deal Mean for Tax Reform?

August 2, 2011 –
What will the debt deal mean for the future of tax reform? Sadly, nothing good. The budget agreement is, for tax reformers, a huge disappointment...
Federal Budget and Economy

Required Reading for Budget Balancers: Bipartisan Solutions Available

July 28, 2011 –
Every morning I read essentially the same story in my newspaper– the national debt has hit the legal limit, and unless the debt ceiling is...
Federal Budget and Economy

What Would the Gang of Six Really Do to Taxes?

July 22, 2011 –
As my Tax Policy Center colleague Donald Marron noted the other day, trying to sort through the various baselines in the Gang of Six’s bipartisan...
Individual Taxes

Does the Gang of Six Cut Taxes or Raise Them?

July 20, 2011 –
Here’s a quick multiple choice quiz about the Gang of Six’s new budget proposal. Over the next ten years, would the proposal: a. Cut taxes...
Individual Taxes

The Senate Gang of Six’s Budget Plan Aims at Taxes

July 20, 2011 –
The Senate’s bipartisan on again/off again Gang of Six has proposed an ambitious tax and spending package that closely follows the plan offered six months...
Federal Budget and Economy

John Boehner’s Moment of Truth

July 12, 2011 –
In July 2000, under immense pressure from President Clinton, the Israeli government made Yasser Arafat a remarkable offer: It would recognize a Palestinian state that...
Federal Budget and Economy

Spending in Disguise

June 29, 2011 –
Republicans are demanding a deficit-reduction package that’s entirely spending cuts. Democrats insist that revenues must also be included. Are these positions completely irreconcilable? Not if...
Individual Taxes

How Michele Bachmann Would Knock 20,000 Millionaires off the Tax Rolls

June 16, 2011 –
In a revealing interview with Steve Moore of The Wall Street Journal , Representative Michele Bachmann(R-MN) called for repealing taxes on capital gains. She also...
Individual Taxes

How Tariff Policy Undermines Other Tax Policy Goals

June 14, 2011 –
As someone who spends her time thinking about how taxes affect low-income families – and ways to make it more rational – I can’t say...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Obama: ISO Economists

June 9, 2011 –
In 2008, Barack Obama brought an all-star squad of centrist and center-left economists to the White House. Now, as he confronts a critical turning point...