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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Scoring Tax Reform: Budget Baselines Don’t Really Matter

December 2, 2010 –
My TPC colleague Howard Gleckman wrote the other day about the confusion caused by the multiple baselines advocates use to measure the effects of tax...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Obama Deficit Panel’s Tax Reform Version 2.0

December 1, 2010 –
The chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission have refined—in some key ways—their broad-based tax reform plan. Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson didn’t change their basic...
Federal Budget and Economy

Deficit Reduction. Tax Reform, and Budget Baselines

November 30, 2010 –
How can it be that one commentator can blast the tax reform plan proposed a few weeks by the co-chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission...
Federal Budget and Economy

Deficit Plans Cut Marginal Tax Rates, But Raise Average Rates, for High Earners

November 23, 2010 –
Liberal critics of the deficit reduction and tax reform plans that surfaced over the past couple of weeks have been blasting them for the sin...
Federal Budget and Economy

Bipartisan Policy Center Debt Plan Shifts Benefits to Childless Workers

November 22, 2010 –
The debt reduction and tax reform plan proposed this week by the Bipartisan Policy Center does more than cut the deficit. The task force, chaired...
Federal Budget and Economy

Deficit Reduction, The Tax Code, and the Social Safety Net

November 18, 2010 –
The tax system serves two purposes. It is supposed to collect enough money to fund government (a job not well done) and it helps maintain...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Bold, Controversial Stab at the Deficit and Tax Reform

November 17, 2010 –
Another day. Another bold and controversial tax reform plan. This is getting very interesting. Today, the privately-funded Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) released its own far-reaching...
Federal Budget and Economy

Bowles-Simpson Deficit Plan Would Hike Taxes Across-The-Board

November 16, 2010 –
Critics of the deficit reduction plan offered by the co-chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission have blasted it for being both a tax hike (bad...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Bowles-Simpson “Chairmen’s Mark” Deficit Reduction Plan

November 12, 2010 –
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairs of President Obama’s Deficit Commission, have released a “ Chairmen’s Mark ,” a broad plan to reduce the federal...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Bowles-Simpson Plan: Tax Hike or a Tax Cut?

November 11, 2010 –
Fascinating to read the morning-after criticism of the tax provisions of the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan . Many commentators on both the left and the...