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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Read moreThis 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
Read moreYesterday, 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreRecently, 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
Read moreLast 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
Read moreThis 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
Read moreToday, 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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The Cost of "Current Policy"
Read moreThe CBO recently projected a ten-year deficit of $7.1 trillion using a "current law" baseline. But these numbers may prove to be optimistic. CRFB...
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Taxing the Middle Class
Read moreAugust 4 - Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reiterated the administration's pledge not to raise taxes on Americans earning less...
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Analysis of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Read moreToday, the President signed the stimulus bill into law. The fiscal stimulus includes $501 billion in increased spending and $286 billion in tax cuts...