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President's Budget Update: Insourcing
Read moreThe most recent focus of President Obama's initiatives has been on "insourcing," or providing incentives to companies to bring jobs back to the US...
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The Case for Tax Reform: Reducing the IRS's Administrative Burden and the Tax Gap
Read moreThe Internal Revenue Service report on the 2006 tax gap, showing $385 billion (about 15 percent) of missing revenue, has made its rounds, sparking...
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The 'Coke Zero Plan' for Tax Reform?
Read moreReaders of this blog will be familiar with the Zero Plan from the Fiscal Commission's tax reform effort. An article in the newest issue of Health...
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Deja Vu All Over Again...Again: February Edition
Read moreRemember when we said last November that Congress had a lot to do by the end of the year? Well, they took care of FY 2012 appropriations, but...
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Another Candidate Score From Tax Policy Center
Read moreIn evaluating the impact of Republican candidates' tax plans, Tax Policy Center has been an invaluable resource. After having scored Newt Gingrich's...
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Tax Policy Center Estimates Newt Gingrich's Tax Plan
Read moreA few days ago, the Tax Policy Center (TPC) came out with a distributional and revenue score for Newt Gingrich's tax plan. It is similar to Rick Perry...
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Op-Ed: How to Pay for the Payroll Tax Cut
Read moreThe Atlantic | December 12, 2011 A solution to pay for $300 billion of stimulus that doesn't include the words "tax hike" or "spending cut" (Reuters)...
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Paying for the Extenders
Read moreWith so many provisions set to expire at the end of the year, CRFB has released a new paper that details what lawmakers have to extend and how they...
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Questions for the Candidates
Read moreThis Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, the Republican presidential candidates will debate for one of the last times before the Iowa caucuses on January 3...
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Another Proposal to Extend the Payroll Tax Cut and Other Policies
Read moreFinding a way to extend the payroll tax cut, along with the many other expiring provisions this year, continues to be a dominating issue for Congress...
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Spotlight on the States: Internet Sales Tax
Read moreBreaking from traditional posts in our Spotlight on the States series, this blog focuses not on one state's budget, but on an issue that directly...