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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
On Wednesday, November 11, Ted Gayer and Fred Barbash participated in a live web chat on the extended homebuyer tax credit, debating whether or not President Obama should have let it expire.
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:30:00 GMT
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- November 11, 2009, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
President Obama approved the expansion and extension of the homebuyer tax credit initially approved as part of the economic stimulus package. While this move is intended to spur home sales, many experts argue that extending the tax credit is bad policy. On Wednesday, November 11, Ted Gayer and Politico Senior Editor Fred Barbash will be online to answer your questions about the homebuyer tax credit in a live web chat.
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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Some economists and policymakers are discussing the idea of a value added tax (VAT) as a way to solve our deficit problems. Ted Gayer looks at the VAT through the prism of behavioral economics and warns that policymakers could use insights gleaned from this field of economics to deliberately temper healthy economic and political constraints on the growth of government.
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
At the National Community Tax Coalition’s inaugural Day of Action on Capitol Hill, Elizabeth Kneebone discussed how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 increased support for low-income working families.
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Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Although health care reform is intended to bend the curve of spending and reduce the deficit, it alone will not be enough, say Henry Aaron and Isabel Sawhill. They propose that Congress enact a value-added tax, the equivalent of a broad-based sales tax on all goods and services. The revenue from the new tax, and other sources, should be linked directly to public health care spending through a newly created trust fund which would pay for all federal health care spending.
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Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Behavioral economics is changing our understanding of how economic policy operates – including tax policy. In this paper, William J. Congdon, Jeffrey R. Kling and Sendhil Mullainathan consider some implications of behavioral economics for tax policy, such as how it changes our understanding of the welfare consequences of taxation, the relative desirability of using the tax system as a platform for policy implementation and the role of taxes as an element of policy design.
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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:14:14 GMT
As the administration continues to wrangle with the floundering economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has advised that the growing budget deficits have to be cut. Economic Studies director William Gale agrees saying there needs to be a more comprehensive approach to stabilizing the economy.
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Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
President Obama has embraced the idea of tax reform and created an independent commission, but told its members to work within the confines of current policy. Can there be meaningful reform that doesn't raise income taxes on 95 percent of taxpayers? William Gale discusses this and other issues regarding tax reform.
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Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:50:40 GMT
William Gale says the current tax system is too complicated, inequitable and inefficient. He says President Obama has to take the lead on reforming the tax code and that taxpayers should anticipate a future of higher taxes and fewer tax cuts.
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Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:30:00 GMT
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- April 15, 2009, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
On tax day in the United States, Leonard Burman, director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, took questions about what the Obama administration should do to create a fair and equitable tax system during an online web chat moderated by Politico Senior Editor Fred Barbash.
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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:51:28 GMT
Ron Haskins, co-director of Brookings’s Center on Children and Families, says President Obama’s budget is unsustainable and adds that it will likely fail to help restore fiscal solvency to the nation’s economy. Haskins says unless lawmakers are willing to compromise on key issues the fiscal situation will worsen.
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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
President Barack Obama’s budget is the subject of floor debate in the House and Senate this week. Alice Rivlin says that the budget offers good remedies for America’s economic ills, but urges Congress to make it even better by paying for the new investments and reducing the long-term deficits.
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Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In order to overcome trillion-dollar deficits, the president must get spending under control – and muster a lot of political will says Isabel Sawhill: First, by getting Health Care spending under control; second, by putting Social Security on a sound financial basis; and finally by raising revenues.
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Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- February 20, 2009, 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM
The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC) and the International Tax Policy Forum held a half-day conference to assess the extent to which the U.S. tax system differs from international norms and whether these differences affect U.S. economic performance.
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Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In 2006, the 400 richest Americans had an average income of $263 million, a 23 percent jump over the previous year, the Internal Revenue Service says. That same year, the very wealthy paid, on average, an effective tax rate of 17 percent — the lowest in 15 years. NPR's All Things Considered host Robert Siegel discusses the issue with Bill Gale.
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Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A diverse group of experts urged President Obama, in his first budget submission, to strike a judicious balance between America’s short-term and long-term economic needs. While the need to boost spending to stimulate the economy is important, they say these short-term steps must not make it harder to achieve our long-term goals. They note that fundamental reforms of major entitlement programs and the tax system are needed to bring spending and revenues into better balance over the longer-term.
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Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The economic recovery bill includes tax relief for lower-income working families, including temporary, targeted expansions in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). A new Metropolitan Policy Program analysis shows how proposed expansions to the EITC would benefit taxpayers in individual states, metropolitan areas and selected cities around the nation.
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Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
If policy-makers prefer speedy and administratively simple tax relief, a payroll tax cut has much to recommend it. However, argues Gary Burtless, if they want to target tax relief on taxpayers who are most likely to spend it in the short run, then a temporary cut in income taxes is the way to go.
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Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Innovative and sound tax policy may be one way out of our financial rut, argue Bill Gale and Ben Harris. An effective tax code can buoy an economic recovery; down the road, taxation can help achieve the Obama administration's goals in health care, in energy policy and, ultimately, for fiscal balance.
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Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:45:00 GMT
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- December 05, 2008, 8:45 AM to 4:30 PM
A new administration presents an ideal opportunity to reshape the nation’s tax code. Improving the equity, simplicity and efficiency of the tax system will help to better prepare taxpayers, businesses and the economy for the challenges that lay ahead. Brookings, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and Tax Analysts co-hosted a forum to explore timely policy recommendations for the incoming president and his transition team.
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:30:00 GMT
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- December 03, 2008, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
The U.S. tax code is too complex, often supports misguided incentives, and raises inadequate revenue to support government spending. William Gale, vice president and director of Economic Studies, answered questions in a live web chat with Politico's Jeanne Cummings, chief lobbying and influence writer, about strengthening and improving our nation’s tax code.
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Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:07:14 GMT
President-elect Obama held his first press conference today, focusing on the economy. Kling commented on Obama’s address saying the nation needs two rounds of stimulus to kick-start the economy—the first to stem recent job losses and help homeowners, and then to focus on longer-term growth.
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Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
William Gale and Benjamin Harris discuss the tax proposals set forth by the presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.
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Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Martin Baily recommends an immediate stimulus package of $200 billion, with preparation of an additional $100 billion to be triggered if unemployment goes over 7.5 percent to prevent the U.S. economy from trending further into the danger zone.
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Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Wall Street saw a boost Monday as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress that a second stimulus bill might help the economy. Martin Baily and William Beach examine the prospects for a new stimulus plan.
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Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
There is little lawmakers can do in the short run to reduce prices at the pump, argue Jason Bordoff and Pascal Noel. What if there were a way to lower the cost of driving while still encouraging people to drive less and use less oil? The authors examine how pay-as-you-drive auto insurance supports this goal.
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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
With baby boomers beginning to retire and health care spending outpacing income growth, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security face an uncertain financial future. Henry Aaron, Charles Schultze and other experts propose a radical change in budget procedures to address the budget deficits currently projected for future decades.
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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Isabel Sawhill presents leading presidential candidates' positions on issues of fiscal responsibility, including: taxes, government programs and budgetary process issues . This chart is part of a series of issue indices to be published during the 2008 presidential election cycle.
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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
William Gale, Doug Elmendorf, Jason Furman and Benjamin Harris reexamine the distributional effects of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, incorporating the financing of the tax changes, and the implications of behavioral responses for economic growth, incomes, and well-being factors. Compared with the standard analysis, this “dynamic distributional analysis” shows that the benefits of these tax cuts were much smaller, on average, and much more skewed toward people with higher incomes.
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Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Slowed economic growth and rising prices for necessities like food, transportation, and child care threaten to exacerbate the challenges already facing America's low-income workers and their families. The federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) could do more to help close the growing gap between stagnant wages and rising prices. "Metro Raise" demonstrates how an expanded and modernized EITC would benefit families and communities in the nation's major metropolitan areas.
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Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In this overview paper, Jason Furman examines reasons why markets that could reduce risks are missing and what the government can do to foster markets in these areas. He xplains that certain laws and regulations, market failures and behavioral biases of consumers act as barriers to market formation.
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Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The volatility of state tax revenues can force states and localities to cut back on necessary programs or raise taxes at a time when the state economy is already suffering. Akash Deep and Robert Z. Lawrence explain that pooling the risk of tax revenue losses could compensate states and localities for lost tax revenue and allow them to respond to fiscal crises without raising taxes or cutting services.
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Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Many low-income working families would benefit from a streamlined ability to access the proceeds of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) throughout the year as they pay for ongoing expenses like housing, child care, and transportation. The federal government should consider adopting a model for direct periodic payment of the EITC, as most other countries with in-work tax credits provide.
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Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Tax incentives for employer-sponsored insurance and other medical spending cost about $200 billion annually and have pervasive effects on coverage and costs. In this paper, Jason Furman surveys a range of proposals to reform health care, either by adding new tax incentives or by limiting or replacing the existing tax incentives.
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Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Stimulus checks are a bright note in this year’s tax season. But, William Gale asserts, the annual tax-filing ritual is otherwise complicated and outdated. He recommends that the presidential candidates advocate changes like streamlining tax incentives and allowing some taxpayers to pay without filing returns.
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Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Taxpayers are overwhelmed by complexity, real and imagined, in the tax code. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, William Gale said that, although the need to simplify the tax system is one goal that everyone accepts, every year the system becomes more complex.
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Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Alan J. Auerbach, Jason Furman and William Gale discuss the most recent Congressional Budget Office baseline projection, and use it to examine the causes of the fiscal decline since 2000 and the medium- and longer-term fiscal outlook.
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Fri, 02 May 2008 11:09:46 GMT
The idea of a gas tax "holiday" is now prominent in the presidential race but is gaining little traction in Congress. William Gale says that giving drivers a summer break from gas taxes may have political legs but will not help consumers at the pump. What is needed, Gale says, is a serious debate about the real issues.
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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee on Tax Day—April 15, Jason Furman described how policy-makers can make the tax code more efficient by following principles of "tax neutrality" so that individuals' decisions are made on economic merits and not for tax reasons.
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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In this report, Elizbeth Kneebone examines the changing distribution of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) recipients across large cites and suburbs, smaller metro areas, and rural communities throughout the country. While taxpayers in large cities and rural areas were the most likely to claim the EITC in 2005, more than one-third of EITC filers lived in the suburbs of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas.
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Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This book focuses on three key criteria for fostering broadly shared economic growth: enhancing economic security, building a highly skilled work force, and reforming the tax system.
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Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- February 29, 2008, 9:00 AM to 5:15 PM
In a conference co-sponsored by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the American Tax Policy Institute, some of the nation’s foremost tax and health care experts presented results of research evaluating the effectiveness of tax policy in expanding health insurance coverage and controlling health care spending.
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Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
International food prices are rising globally, prompting many countries to adjust tariffs to attract or keep more food domestically. Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development, recently discussed the tariffs with NPR, noting how policies are impacting production and consumption patterns globally.
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Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
With a weakening economy, most agree that any well-designed stimulus should be timely, temporary and targeted. Douglas W. Elmendorf and Jason Furman advocate that the "three T" principles are critical to ensure that any benefits do not come at the expense of serious long-run harm.
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Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Although the overall economy has grown reasonably well in the last six years, the gains have not filtered down and the share of Americans in poverty has risen. Jason Furman suggests policy improvements to better facilitate the American dream.
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Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:00:00 GMT
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- December 12, 2007, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
On December 12, the Hamilton Project at Brookings hosted a two-part forum at the National Press Club on ways to encourage, facilitate and reward work. Besides releasing a new Hamilton Project strategy paper, the forum highlighted four new and forthcoming discussion papers.
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Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Simplifying a complex and inequitable tax system can take years, history has shown. Jason Furman urges prompt action now that the new Ways and Means tax reform proposal offers a solid starting point.
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Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The system for taxing business is broken; Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel is proposing a fix. Senior Fellow Jason Furman argues that the Rangel plan opens an important discussion that others—including the Bush Administration—should join.
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Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:27:44 GMT
The one thing that everyone agrees on is that taxes shouldn’t be so complicated. Yet every year, they get more complex. William Gale explains how the next president can move quickly to make the tax code simple, equitable, stable and promote economic growth.
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Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:45:00 GMT
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- September 18, 2007 at 12:45 PM
The Tax Policy Center and Brookings's Opportunity 08 project hosted Senator Barack Obama for a speech on the economy, opportunity and tax policy.
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Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on fair and equitable tax policy for America's working families.
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Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In the wake of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, President Bush shot down a suggestion that the federal government increase the gas tax to raise more money for transportation.
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Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In this third edition of his classic book The Federal Budget, Allen Schick examines how surpluses projected during the final years of the Clinton presidency turned into oversized deficits under George W. Bush.
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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Though most do not recognize it as an "urban" program, the Earned Income Tax Credit provides significant benefits to families in cities and suburbs, and stimulates local economic activity. In this presentation to Congressional staff organized by Living Cities, Alan Berube examines what Members can do to maximize the benefits of the EITC for lower-income families and communities in their districts.
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Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Bill Gale and co-authors advocate examine the mortgage interest deduction and argue for new proposals that would be less expensive, more progressive and more effective in encouraging homeownership.
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Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:00:00 GMT
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- June 12, 2007, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution hosted a forum and released a new set of policy proposals that address the challenges of reforming the U.S. tax system in an increasingly global economy. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers opened the discussion by providing an overview of a new Hamilton Project strategy paper that frames the challenges facing the current U.S. system of taxation and offers six guiding principles for progressively reforming the tax code.
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Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
This paper introduces the Business Enterprise Income Tax (BEIT), a comprehensive and detailed proposal for reforming business income taxation. Current law fails to tax all business income consistently and comprehensively. It distorts economic behavior and diverts managerial effort toward tax avoidance.
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Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The repeal of the estate tax for one year only in 2010 creates vast uncertainty but also provides an opportunity to reconsider the taxation of gifts and bequests. This paper proposes replacing the estate tax with an inheritance tax.
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Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The current system of taxing multinational firms relies on separate accounting: firms account for earnings and costs in each location in which they operate. This system generates a large tax incentive to earn income in low-tax countries, and multinational firms respond by earning disproportionate profits in low-tax locations.
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Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The progressive tax system, and the nation's fiscal system more broadly, have historically played an important role in expanding opportunities for all Americans while reducing inequality. But the same dynamic forces of technological change, financial innovation, and globalization that have contributed to rising income inequality also present new challenges for progressive taxation.
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Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In 1997, Congress enacted a number of tax benefits directed toward helping middle- and upper-middle income groups meet rising college costs. This shift in goals and strategies raises concerns about the fairness and effectiveness of the evolving federal approach to higher education. This policy brief analyzes who benefits from the major direct spending program, Pell grants, and the three tax subsidies that most closely resemble grants, the Hope and Lifetime Learning credits and the deduction for tuition and fees.
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Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In this report, Elizabeth Kneebone examines how receipt of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) increased between 2000 and 2004 in response to economic challenges. Increases were largest in the suburbs of the nation's largest metropolitan areas, which today contain 2.4 million more EITC recipients than central cities.
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Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Exceeding $2 trillion annually, health care spending in the United States is growing significantly faster than the national economy. If left unchecked, this health spending crisis will threaten Americans' ability to pay for other essential services.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
A good tax system raises the revenues needed to finance government spending in a manner that is as simple, equitable, stable, and conducive to economic growth as possible. But the challenge for the next President will be to make reform work not just in the abstract, but in the real world, where special interests often rule the roost. The next President should support reforms that would tax all income once (only) at the full tax rate, simplify and streamline the tax code, and, of course, raise sufficient revenues.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Ron Haskins (2/22/07)
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Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:00:00 GMT
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- February 09, 2007, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:30:00 GMT
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- February 07, 2007, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
A distinguished panel of experts offered their bipartisan plan of spending cuts and revenue enhancements to balance the budget in the next five years, and set the nation on a sustainable fiscal course for the long run. Participants included G. William Hoagland, former director of budget and appropriations for former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.); Charles Stenholm, former Member of Congress from Texas; and Isabel Sawhill, a Brookings senior fellow.
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Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Jason Furman (1/31/07)
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Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In his State of the Union address, President Bush will propose to replace most current tax exclusions and deductions for health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs with a new $15,000 standard deduction ($7,500 for single people) in the federal income tax-as well as an exemption from payroll taxes-for all taxpayers who obtain qualifying health insurance. The plan would eliminate the current bias in favor of health insurance obtained through employers, provide tax incentives for the purchase of health insurance in the private market, and reduce current tax incentives to over-spend on healthcare services. As designed, the proposal would be revenue neutral over ten years, after which it would generate a growing stream of revenue.
The innovative plan is a major step toward improving the efficiency of the market for health insurance. By severing the link between work and insurance, it would offer everyone the same tax incentives to obtain insurance coverage and limit spending on health care. Whether it would succeed in meeting its objectives in a fair way is less clear.
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Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) was originally designed to limit the amount of tax sheltering that taxpayers could pursue and to assure that high-income filers paid at least some tax. The current AMT, however, has strayed far from those original goals. Under current law, the tax will affect over 23 million taxpayers in 2007—many of them solidly middle-class—and mainly for reasons that have little or nothing to do with what most people would consider tax sheltering.
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Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Peter Orszag (12/3/2006)
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Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Local and regional leaders across the U.S. have come to view the Earned Income Tax Credit as a critical investment in their economies. This paper explores the benefits to families and communities that can result from actions to realize the full potential of the credit.
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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation at the National Community Tax Coalition annual conference, Alan Berube discusses the Brookings interactive tax data website, and how local coalitions can use the data to measure, target, and expand the services they provide to lower-income taxpayers.
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Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Peter Orszag, Senate Budget Committee (9/28/06)
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Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Policy Brief #156: Reforming Tax Incentives into Uniform Refundable Tax Credits; by Peter R. Orszag, Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., and Lily L. Batchelder
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Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This paper reviews past federal government experience in redeveloping distressed communities, outlining lessons that need to be brought to the process in the Gulf post-Katrina.
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Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This analysis reviews spending decisions nationwide and in three states, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, under the Temporary Assistance program since its enactment in 1996.
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Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Austan Goolsbee (7/17/06)
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Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT
One novel approach from the Bay Area may hold lessons for the rest of urban America.
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Wed, 31 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Diane Lim Rogers, San Francisco Chronicle (5/31/06)
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Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This paper tells the story of the San Francisco Working Families Credit, now in its second year, explaining how the program worked in its first year of operation and describing lessons learned and best practices for those considering developing a sim
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Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Isabel V. Sawhill, Kansas City Star (4/23/06)
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Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Diane Lim Rogers, The Boston Globe (4/16/06)
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Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:30:00 GMT
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- April 05, 2006, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
With global competition increasing and wages stagnating, America's promise of providing an opportunity for every individual to lead a better life is in jeopardy. To restore this promise, a new economic policy project—backed by leaders from business, academia and public policy—was launched on April 5, 2006. The Hamilton Project is a unique initiative at the Brookings Institution designed to inject new policy options from leading economic thinkers across the country into the national economic debate.
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Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Diane Lim Rogers and Andrew L. Yarrow, The Baltimore Sun (4/2/06)
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Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In recent years several Republican and Democratic governors have imposed new pollution taxes, often winning bipartisan acclaim. A growing number of commentators have supported such measures at the federal level.
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Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Hamilton Project Paper by William G. Gale, Jonathan Gruber, Peter R. Orszag (April 2006)
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Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Event Summary on The President's Budget and the Long-Term Fiscal Outlook (February 10, 2006)
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Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Despite substantial attention given to fiscal policy concerns in recent years, the federal government's fiscal status has continued to deteriorate, with the enactment of tax cuts, a massive new Medicare entitlement, increased spending on defense and homeland security, and related economic developments. This paper provides new estimates of the nation's fiscal status over both the 10-year and long-term horizon, based on the most recent (January 2006) CBO official budget figures (2006).
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Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation to the European Union Labour Counsellors, Alan Berube discusses how the EITC works, whom it benefits, what effects it has on work and poverty, and what issues surround the credit as it enters its 31st year.
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Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This paper looks back at the efforts after 1981 to resolve the conflict over how to reduce the budget deficit. Large and sustained budget deficits have re-emerged as a central focus of the debate over U.S. economic policy. The parallels between today's situation and the large deficits of the 1980s are striking in several dimensions. Is it possible that history will simply repeat itself, and a return to the budget discipline of the 1990s will again restore balance?
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Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This book provides an economic assessment of the Bush administrations past and ongoing drive for tax cuts. William Gale and Peter Orszag, noted scholars in tax policy, provide historical context for the administrations tax policy and examine its ef
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Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This research brief by Steve Holt reviews the structure and history of the EITC, summarizing key research into the people and places it affects as well as its impact on important socioeconomic measures.
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Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In this report, Alan Berube examines how receipt of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expanded nationwide from 2000 to 2003 in response to a weakened economy.
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Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Leonard E. Burman and William G. Gale, Tax Break (12/5/05)
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Fri, 02 Dec 2005 08:30:00 GMT
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- December 02, 2005, 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM
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Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Leonard E. Burman and Wiliam G. Gale, Economists' Voice (December 2005)
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Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT
The Evolving Pension System examines the foundations and the future of the private pension system. It provides a broad overview of the underlying assumptions, characteristics, and effects of existing pension policy, as well as alternative view
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Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Isabel V. Sawhill and Andrew L. Yarrow, Los Angeles Times (11/12/05)
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Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Henry J. Aaron and George A. Hacker, Knight-Ridder Newspapers (11/7/05)