Taxes
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What About Cutting Spending?
In their oped in the Washington Post today, Henry Aaron and Isabel Sawhill argue that raising taxes will be necessary to close the fiscal gap and help...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: In an editorial titled, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” The Wall...
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Coalition Tries to Make a Stimulus Tax Break Permanent
Today, the Congressional Quarterly reported that a coalition of airport authorities, port authorities, and student loan lenders is pushing Congress to...
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The U.S. Taxpayer and the IMF
For the U.S. taxpayer, last weekend’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings in Turkey were a reminder of the importance of global cooperation to...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
This weekend, there have been a number of editorials about fiscal and budget policy. Among them: USA Today argued for "patching" the estate tax next...
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Simplifying the Tax Code
Yesterday, the tax subgroup of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB) met to discuss ideas for simplifying the tax code as part of...
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People Pay Taxes
The simple truism that tax professors try to teach, and politicians try to ignore, is that people pay taxes. All taxes are passed onto people in one...
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Ideas for Tax Reform
Recently, Tax Analysts released Toward Tax Reform: Recommendations for President Obama's Task Force , a collection of essays by 32 prominent tax...
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Another $95 Billion of Budgeting Through Footnotes
Last week, we wrote about $85 billion worth of stimulus tax cuts which the Obama administration assumed as permanant in their baseline so that they...
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Budgeting through Footnotes
This morning, Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post reported on the decision of the Obama administration to incorporate $85 billion in tax breaks...
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Constructing a "Current Policy" Baseline
Today, US Budget Watch released The Cost of “Current Policy”. In this analysis, we show that, while deeply troublesome, CBO’s $7.1 trillion ten-year...
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Taxing the Middle Class
August 4 - Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reiterated the administration's pledge not to raise taxes on Americans earning less...