Relevant and even prescient commentary on news, politics and the economy.

You searched for: label/Campaign Tax Talk

Trump Is Making the Same Mistake that Clinton Did: He’s Already Ignoring Working-Class Rust Belt Whites. Progressives Need to Start Illustrating This by Highlighting His Planned Court and Cabinet Nominees. Now.

…enough on driving a message-based campaign. Without a chief strategist in the mold of Penn or David Axelrod, the campaign was run by a committee of strong-willed aides struggling to…

Tax Patents

…shelters or otherwise mislead taxpayers about expected results. Tax strategy patents encumber the ability of taxpayers and their advisors to use the tax law freely, interfering with the voluntary tax

New graphic data on taxes, growth, and revenues

…to call that “Actual Personal Tax Rate.” The Actual Personal Tax Rate is not a figure anyone ever talks about. Instead, people talk about marginal tax rates. There are a…

Bush Proposes Tax Increase! Last week, the Bush campaign charged that Kerry plans to raise taxes by at least $900b. Of course, Kerry never said that(*); instead, the Bush campaign

A Further Critique of Romer and Romer

…in other measures of taxes. The estimated output effects obtained using broader measures of tax changes, such as the change in cyclically adjusted revenues or all legislated tax changes, are…