December 7, 2010
The tax deal reached by President Obama and congressional Republicans (but not Hill Democrats) includes a bit of good, some bad, and some really ugly...
December 6, 2010
As usual in December, personal finance columns are filled with end-of-year tax advice—all those things you should do before New Year’s to cut your tax...
December 2, 2010
My TPC colleague Howard Gleckman wrote the other day about the confusion caused by the multiple baselines advocates use to measure the effects of tax...
December 1, 2010
The chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission have refined—in some key ways—their broad-based tax reform plan. Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson didn’t change their basic...
November 30, 2010
How can it be that one commentator can blast the tax reform plan proposed a few weeks by the co-chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission...
November 23, 2010
Liberal critics of the deficit reduction and tax reform plans that surfaced over the past couple of weeks have been blasting them for the sin...
November 22, 2010
The debt reduction and tax reform plan proposed this week by the Bipartisan Policy Center does more than cut the deficit. The task force, chaired...
November 19, 2010
On Wednesday, the Bipartisan Policy Center Debt Reduction Task Force—a bipartisan group of former politicians and government officials—released a plan to tame the national debt...
November 19, 2010
One of the most dramatic elements of the tax reform plan offered by the chairs of President Obama’s deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson,...
November 18, 2010
The tax system serves two purposes. It is supposed to collect enough money to fund government (a job not well done) and it helps maintain...