Romer’s deficit reduction suggestions worth a read
…the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year [while] [i]ncreasing rates on top earners” and “lowering tax expenditures” including “the low tax rate on capital…
…the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year [while] [i]ncreasing rates on top earners” and “lowering tax expenditures” including “the low tax rate on capital…
…Tax Notes, has focused on a tax giveaway that most of us have missed–a provision that permits partnerships that own pipelines to charge consumers for a tax that they don’t…
…an increase in the current tax rate from 12.4% to 16.5% — an increase of nearly one-third in worker tax burdens. “ The “one third in worker tax burdens” is,…
…the continued advance of corporate tax expenditures that allow corporations to pay little or no taxes year after year. “Of the many Americans who are right now getting their taxes…
…10 percent of families at the highest. Overall, the distribution of total federal taxes became less progressive. Between 1977 and 1980, the total effective tax rate for all four taxes…
…form of a tax break in the tax code. I want to see alternative energy succeed, but I’m not sure these tax credits are targeted sufficiently at the new technologies…
…Republicans genuinely think that those families pay too much in taxes right now, and need tax relief. The thing is, they’ve already gotten lots of it. The following table shows…
…the largest loss coming from the Cadillac tax ($197 billion), followed by the Health Insurance tax ($150.8 billion) and the Medical Device tax ($25.5 billion). All repealed for Congress to…
…tax cuts, one Democratic leader said these cuts would “do nothing to create jobs.” Facts have proven the critics wrong 5.1 million times over. Tax relief has done exactly what…
…tax” as compared to a graduated “income tax.” As long as either tax is used to pay for the same government expenses, the sales tax is more “regressive” than the…