Taxes
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What's On Congress's Plate
First off, CRFB would like to congratulate President Obama and all of those who were elected and re-elected to the Senate and the House. CRFB is...
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Line Items: Election Edition
Decision Time – Election Day is tomorrow and the stakes are high. Not only is control of the White House and Congress at stake, but the election will...
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Wonkblog Rolls Out Individual Tax Reform Calculator
Over at Wonkblog, Dylan Matthews and Ezra Klein have worked with analysts at Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute for Taxation and Economic...
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Tax Reform is Very Hard
Recently, we released an analysis demonstrating that it is indeed possible to substantially reduce tax rates while still cutting the deficit. Despite...
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Line Items: Debate Edition
Up for Debate – Election 2012 is entering the final stretch and it is still up for grabs. The presidential contest has been marked more by missteps...
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More Analysis of Gov. Romney's Deductions Cap
After we analyzed a part of it two weeks ago, Governor Mitt Romney's tax plan is back in the news, with a proposed deduction cap as the subject of a...
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New CRFB Paper Shows Tax Reform Can Reduce Rates and Deficits
Today, CRFB released a paper on individual income tax reform, showing how comprehensive reforms could lower both deficits and tax rates. The paper...
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JCT Report Does Not Conflict With Rate-Reducing Tax Reform
Today, a report from the Joint Committee on Taxation was released that some claim to show the near-impossibility of deficit-reducing, rate-reducing...
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How the Fiscal Cliff (and Tax Reform) Could Affect Tax Rates
Over at TaxVox, Roberton Williams writes about what will happen to tax rates under the fiscal cliff. Many economists believe that marginal tax rates...
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Reducing Both Tax Rates and the Deficit Is Possible
Over the past few years, bipartisan agreement has begun to form around approaches to tax reform that take a broad approach to reducing or eliminating...
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Revisiting Dynamic Scoring
The use of dynamic scoring is one of the most contested issues in the budget world. We highlighted the pros and cons of using it and the issues...
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Schumer Outlines His Vision for Taxes
In a speech at the National Press Club (video here), Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) outlined his vision of how to change the tax code. During the...