TaxVox: Presidential campaign proposals

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...

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

"Tell me what you want, what you really, really want..."

March 6, 2019 –

I asked some parents to make a choice. Their response was perhaps not what Warren hoped for, given her proposed Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act.

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Inside The Warren Vs. Harris Battle Over Tax Progressivity

January 28, 2019 –

Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) both want to be elected President of the United States in 2020. Both believe that the federal...

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Reading President Bush’s Lips

December 5, 2018 –

George H.W. Bush probably gave a thousand speeches in his life. But many people remember just six words.

Remembering John McCain’s Tax Agenda

August 27, 2018 –

During primary season in 2000, I came upon my boss—a longtime Democratic insider—reading John McCain's tax plan. “It’s really good,” he said, and a lot...