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TPC’s New Guide To The 2020 Presidential Candidates’ Tax Policy Proposals: We’re Keeping Track So You Don’t Have To.

December 12, 2019 –
Eighteen candidates still are in the running for president in 2020—and they’ve proposed over 300 tax ideas! To keep track, the Tax Policy Center has...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Democrats In Love With Big Tax Hikes Might Do Well To Remember Walter Mondale

December 9, 2019 –
When I heard that Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden was proposing to raise taxes by $3.2 trillion over 10 years, I flashed back to Walter...

Most 2020 Candidates Say They’d Fight Climate Change, But Leaders Don’t Back A Carbon Tax

November 26, 2019 –
Climate change is a leading issue in the 2020 presidential elections, especially among Democratic voters. According to a recent CBS poll , almost two thirds...

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

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...
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...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How Warren’s Promises May Exceed Her Ability To Pay, And Teach Voters An Important Lesson

April 24, 2019 –
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed a long list of detailed, ambitious, and very expensive campaign ideas. And she has described how she’d pay for them:...

Four Ways To Tell When A Tax Proposal Is Serious

April 11, 2019 –
With the new Congress well into its legislative season and many Democratic presidential hopefuls in full campaign mode, policy ideas are flying fast and furious...