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New Analysis of Who Pays What in Obama’s Budget

April 23, 2013, William G. Gale

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

Creating an American Value-Added Tax

February 26, 2013, William G. Gale and Benjamin H. Harris

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

Long-Term Impacts of Individual Development Accounts on Homeownership among Baseline Renters: Follow-Up Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

February 1, 2013, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Michael Sherraden, William G. Gale, William M. Rohe, Mark Schreiner and Clinton Key

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

The Fiscal Cliff Has Been Avoided, But at What Cost?

January 2, 2013, William G. Gale

Taxes and Fiscal Policy: 2012 in Review

December 20, 2012, William G. Gale and Sam Brown

Let’s All Jump Off the Fiscal Cliff

December 7, 2012, Bradley Belt, Jared Bernstein, William G. Gale and Phillip Swagel

Taxing the Wealthiest Could Go a Long Way

December 5, 2012, William G. Gale

Effects of an Individual Development Account Program on Retirement Saving: Follow-Up Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

December 2012, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Michael Sherraden, William G. Gale, William M. Rohe, Mark Schreiner and Clinton Key

Tax Reform for Growth, Equity, and Revenue

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

Why We May Have to go Over the Fiscal Cliff

November 29, 2012, 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

The Economics of Carbon Taxes

November 13, 2012

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

New Ways to Promote Retirement Saving

October 2012, William G. Gale, David C. John and Spencer Smith

The fact that going over the fiscal cliff would hurt the economy in the short run is, to me, basically saying stimulus would help the economy in the short run. The whole debate over whether the stimulus is a good idea is answered by those who say going over the fiscal cliff is a bad idea.

October 29, 2012, William G. Gale, Washington Post