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Maya MacGuineas: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Made the Debt Worse and Makes Fixing It Even Harder
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote a blog...
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Would Medicare for All Require a Middle-Class Tax Hike?
Read moreWith several 2020 presidential candidates endorsing a move to single-payer health care ( Medicare for All), there is an ongoing debate over whether...
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Kamala Harris's LIFT the Middle Class Act
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) has called for giving a $3,000 per person ($6,000 per couple) refundable tax credit for...
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Marc Goldwein: A better way to cut the payroll tax rate
Read moreMarc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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How Much Would a Payroll Tax Holiday Cost?
Read moreUpdate 8/20/19: While speaking in the Oval Office, President Trump confirmed that a payroll tax cut and indexing capital gains were under discussion...
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Letter: Nearly 100 Experts Warn Against Cadillac Tax Repeal
Read moreA group of nearly 100 distinguished health and economic policy experts from across the ideological spectrum joined together to warn the Senate against...
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President Trump’s $4 Trillion Debt Increase
Read moreIf the recent budget deal is signed into law, it will be the third major piece of deficit-financed legislation in President Trump's term. In total, we...
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Ways and Means Tax Package Could Cost Over $900 Billion Now
Read moreLast month, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a tax package that would revive and extend several tax extenders through 2020 and dramatically...
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House Should Reject Another Deficit-Financed Tax Cut
Read moreFor Immediate Release The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a permanent repeal of the "Cadillac tax" on high-cost health insurance...
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Are There $1.6 Trillion in Tax Loopholes?
Read moreFormer Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden told the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention on June 28 that the tax code contains $1.6...
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Repealing SALT Caps Would Cost Another $500 Billion
Read moreThe Ways & Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures is holding two hearings today on limitations to the state and local tax (SALT) deduction...
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Tax Extender Package Could Lead to $710 Billion of More Debt
Read moreUpdate 6/24/2019: During markup, the Ways & Means Committee added an amendment further increasing the child tax credit for young children, at an...