Taxes
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How Has the Tax Code Changed Since 1986?
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 is often hailed as a major bipartisan achievement, a reform that simplified the tax code and lowered marginal tax rates. Of...
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The Limits of An All-Tax Solution
Tax Policy Center has a new paper out showing what tax rates would have to be in order to stabilize the debt at 60 percent of GDP in 2020, 2025, and...
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Tim Penny: Presidential Candidates Must Address our Debt
Note: This op-ed was originally published in The Hill. After a year in which the country was on the verge of declaring bankruptcy and the federal...
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Rudolph Penner: Can Tax Reform Save the U.S. Economy?
Were it not for the growth in spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, the United States wouldn't have much of a budget problem. The two...
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President Obama's Corporate Tax Reform Plan
True to this year's State of the Union address, the Obama Administration released a proposal Wednesday that seeks to lower the corporate tax rate from...
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A Closer Look at the President's Tax Policy
This week, in our blog series on the President's budget, we have talked about the overall numbers in the President's budget and the amount of savings...
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'Line' Items: Baseline Edition
Baseline Instinct – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday released its much-awaited 2012 Budget and Economic Outlook. According to CBO, if...
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Taking a Hatchet to Tax Expenditures
The good folks at the Tax Policy Center have written yet another enlightening report on tax expenditures. This one, titled, " Curbing Tax Expenditures...
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Two Good Op-Eds From The New York Times
The New York Times had two interesting op-eds over the weekend on two essential components of deficit reduction: tax reform and health care costs...
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A Way to Reform the Tax Code, from AEI
Alex Brill of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) recently put out a tax reform plan that focuses on corporate taxes, but includes some individual...
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An Analysis of Rick Santorum's Tax Plan
After evaluating Mitt Romney's, Newt Gingrich's, Rick Perry's, and Herman Cain's proposals, the Tax Policy Center (TPC) has put out another analysis...
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What Is, and What Should Be, on the Table?
As lawmakers slowly return to town this week and next week, there will be an increasing focus on possible offsets for any extensions to expiring...