…totally disagree with the Republicans and which people care about. My policy proposal and political strategy is to increase progressivity increasing taxes on the rich and cutting taxes on everyone…

…whatever tax policy it wants, whether Congress has done so or not. How about a freeze on all corporate taxes, since the Bush Administration professes to believe that such tax…

…tax rates and the annualized changes in real taxes paid rate per capita. Here, the idea is that cutting people’s taxes could lead people to pay more taxes. The Laffer…

…increase tax revenue. That is different than being critical of tax cuts. I believe that tax cuts increase growth and, therefore, are partly self-financing. I think it is overoptimistic to…

…which were also covered by Mark Thoma?: His view is that tax increases alone cannot solve the budget problem because the size of the tax increases required would severely curtail…

…alleges that a U.S. corporation can reduce its taxes by mailing the rights to intellectual property (IP) to a country that imposes no tax or a low rate of tax…

…of tax proposals (top marginal rate, estate tax, dividend tax, capital gains tax) that likely fall under the “making over $200,000k” rubric, adds them up, and finds that the “total…

…possible to piece together the specific revenue costs associated with the various Bush tax cuts. Assuming that Congress approves Bush’s request to extend the tax cuts that are currently scheduled…

…when a recession moves families into a lower tax bracket, their after-tax income falls by less than does their pre-tax income (because they move into a lower bracket). Consumption taxes…

…system, in large part,’ Choi said, ‘people don’t understand how 401(k) taxation works.’ He cited one survey in which only 49 percent knew that making before-tax 401(k) contributions decreases taxable…