…a bit of background on tax cut rationales and deficits. Back in the old days of the Bush regime, the tax cutters tended to claim that tax cuts would create…

…the so-called “fiscal cliff”–tax cuts and spending cuts. 1. The Bush tax cuts, job creators, and uncertainty The right has, not unexpectedly, argued that not extending all of the tax…

…a few years after the publication of PNHP’s 1989 proposal, the “single payer” label had been widely adopted by health policy researchers around the world to distinguish systems like Canada’s,…

…issue. Historically, during and following tax hikes tax collections /GDP rise. During and following tax cuts, tax collections fall. (How a fact so basic that even a child could observe…

…past five years: Middle-income households would receive an average tax cut of $20 from the agreement, according to the joint Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, while 0.02 percent of…

…Tax Exempt Status The report also questioned whether AARP deserved its tax-exempt status as a nonprofit. AARP’s health insurance pacts, which UnitedHealthcare refers to as a “strategic alliance,” have been…

…II: this is weird. A trial balloon in the Washington Post. The possible proposal is a payroll tax holiday. I think that is better policy than an income tax rebate,…

…his mystical magic with the 2017 tax break. Layer of layer tax breaks. So which is it? Cut programs or increase taxes? Cut programs or increase taxes? I pick the…

…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…

…of production, even though in the “higher stage of socialism” generally labeled “pure communism,” the state is supposed to “wither away.” Capitalism is private ownership of the means of production,…