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Save to My PortfolioCandidate Issue Index: Fiscal Responsibility

Isabel V. Sawhill, July 02, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Candidate Issue Index: Fiscal ResponsibilityIsabel 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. Read More

Taxes, Medicaid, Medicare, Budget Deficit, U.S. Economy

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Save to My PortfolioDistributional Effects of the 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts

William G. Gale, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Jason Furman and Benjamin H. Harris, June 2008, The Brookings Institution

In this paper 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. Read More

Taxes, Tax Cuts, Income Distribution, U.S. Economy

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Save to My PortfolioIndividual Taxpayers and Federal Tax Reform

William G. Gale, May 13, 2008, Senate Finance Committee

Individual Taxpayers and Federal Tax ReformTaxpayers 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. Read More

Taxes, Tax Reform, Tax Cuts

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Save to My PortfolioSpeech on the Economy, Opportunity and Tax Policy with Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.)

Tuesday, September 18, 2007
12:45 PM to
Washington, DC

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Save to My PortfolioFair and Equitable Tax Policy

Jason Furman, September 06, 2007, House Committee on Ways and Means

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Save to My PortfolioQ&A on Tax Reform

William G. Gale, April 05, 2007

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Save to My PortfolioRestoring Fiscal Sanity 2007

Alice M. Rivlin and Joseph R. Antos, March 01, 2007

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Save to My PortfolioTaming the Deficit: A Bipartisan Plan to Balance the Budget

Wednesday, February 07, 2007
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC

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Save to My PortfolioOptions to Close the Long-run Fiscal Gap

Jason Furman, January 31, 2007, Senate Committee on the Budget

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Save to My PortfolioThe President's Health Insurance Proposal - A First Look

Jason Furman, Leonard E. Burman and Roberton Williams, January 23, 2007, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

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Save to My PortfolioCool-headed, Warm-hearted Economics

Peter R. Orszag, December 03, 2006, The Boston Globe

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Save to My PortfolioPromoting Fiscal Discipline and Broad-Based Economic Growth

Peter R. Orszag, September 28, 2006, Senate Committee on the Budget

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Save to My PortfolioIgnoring Debt Makes it Get Worse

Isabel V. Sawhill, April 30, 2006, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Save to My PortfolioGood Reasons for Taxes

Diane Lim Rogers, April 16, 2006, The Boston Globe

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Save to My PortfolioRising Debt Is Very Scary

Andrew L. Yarrow and Diane Lim Rogers, April 02, 2006, The Baltimore Sun

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Save to My PortfolioEvent Summary: The President's Budget and the Long-Term Fiscal Outlook

February 10, 2006, The Brookings Institution

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William G. Gale

William G. Gale

Vice President and Director, Economic Studies
Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy

Bill Gale, a Brookings vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program, is an expert on tax policy, fiscal issues, pensions, and saving behavior. He is also co-director of the Tax Policy Center and director of the Retirement Security Project.
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Isabel V. Sawhill

Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
The Cabot Family Chair

A nationally known budget expert, Isabel Sawhill focuses on domestic poverty and federal fiscal policy. She is also co-director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings.
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