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State and Local Government Deficits Soar. Are Others Following Detroit's Footsteps?

August 9, 2013, Tracy Gordon

New Analysis of Who Pays What in Obama’s Budget

April 23, 2013, William G. Gale

Why Tax Day Is the Best Day to Save Money

April 15, 2013, Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Small Business, Innovation and Tax Policy: A Review

April 5, 2013, William G. Gale and Samuel Brown

Tax Policy and U.S. Manufacturing in a Global Economy

March 15, 2013

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Carbon Taxes as Part of the Fiscal Solution

March 12, 2013, William G. Gale, Samuel Brown and Fernando Saltiel

The Tax Favored By Most Economists

March 12, 2013, William G. Gale

Fiscal Fatigue: Tracking the Budget Outlook as Political Leaders Lurch from One Artificial Crisis to Another

February 28, 2013, William G. Gale and Alan J. Auerbach

Tax Expenditures and the Deficit: Time to Rethink Retirement Saving Policy?

February 13, 2013

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Observations on the CBO Budget Outlook

February 8, 2013, William G. Gale

The Downside of States as Laboratories for Tax Reform

February 5, 2013, Tracy Gordon

Everything is easier to do if the economy is growing. If you want to cut spending, it is easier to do in an environment where people think they are going to have robust income growth and aren’t as dependent on government. In terms of taxes, growth gets you not just more income to tax, but taxpayers moving into higher rates.

January 12, 2013, William G. Gale, New York Times

What we did on January 1st isn’t tax reform, but it may well preclude any tax reform for this year. First, the whole point of tax reform is to reduce the rates and broaden the base. But we just raised the rates. I find it difficult to think that after the election, where Obama campaigned and won on higher tax rates on the rich, that policymakers would then turn around and reduce rates on the rich, even in exchange for a broader base.

January 9, 2013, William G. Gale, The Fiscal Times

Taxing the Wealthiest Could Go a Long Way

December 5, 2012, William G. Gale

Tax Reform for Growth, Equity, and Revenue

November 30, 2012, Samuel Brown and William G. Gale

We should reform the tax system, no question. We are going to need to move beyond the current set of tax instruments to raise the needed revenues—a VAT and or a carbon tax seem like the obvious ways to go.

November 27, 2012, William G. Gale, New York Times

If we do go over the cliff, lawmakers will be on a budget path that deals with the deficit quite well over the medium term and the long term. Going over the fiscal cliff does the dirty work that Congress has so far been unwilling to do. [But] there are problems with going over the fiscal cliff, and I don't want to minimize them. [The economy] would take a hit, and I think we should enact a stimulus package to avoid that.

November 9, 2012, William G. Gale, National Public Radio

The Tax Policy Center's Analysis of Governor Romney’s Tax Proposals: A Follow-up Discussion

November 7, 2012, Samuel Brown, William G. Gale and Adam Looney

Red Ink and Bad Blood: What Do Federal Budget Politics Mean for the Next President and You?

October 22, 2012

An Updated Federal Budget Outlook: No News Is Bad News

October 10, 2012, Alan J. Auerbach and William G. Gale

Mitt Romney's Tax Proposals: Understanding the Debate

October 8, 2012, William G. Gale

Romney Starts to Fill in Blanks on His Tax Plan

October 5, 2012, William G. Gale

Five Myths About the 47 Percent

September 21, 2012, William G. Gale and Donald B. Marron

Feldstein’s Analysis Doesn’t Refute the Tax Policy Center’s Findings on Romney's Tax Plan, It Confirms Them

August 30, 2012, Samuel Brown, William G. Gale and Adam Looney

In Tax Reform, Is the Mathematically Possible Politically Desirable?

August 20, 2012, William G. Gale