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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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Is Spending, Not Tax Cuts, Driving the Deficit?
Read moreThe House Ways and Means Committee minority recently published a blog post claiming that "spending, not tax cuts, [is] driving national deficits." It...
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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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Watch: What Should We Do About the Zombie Tax Extenders?
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a lunch and panel discussion on What Should We Do About the Zombie Tax Extenders? The...
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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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Would a 10% VAT Pay for a $1,000 per Month UBI?
Read moreDuring the first 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate, candidate Andrew Yang claimed that his Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposal of $1,000...
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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...