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Five Reasons to Pay for Tax Reform
Read moreAn executive summary of this paper is available here. An updated version of this paper is available at Tax Reform Should Not Add to the Debt – Here's...
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Lowering the Bar for "Revenue Neutral" Tax Reform
Read moreOne of the key questions of comprehensive tax reform will be its budgetary target. Congressional leaders have set a revenue-neutral target, raising as...
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Can Delaney Provide a Bipartisan Way Forward for Infrastructure and Tax Reform?
Read moreAs discussions about President-elect Trump's first 100 days agenda continue, Representative John Delaney (D-MD) is suggesting that a bill he proposed...
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Judd Gregg: Passing Tax Reform 101
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Rudolph Penner: Enacting the Trump Fiscal Agenda Won't Be Easy
Read moreDr. Rudolph Penner was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and he is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a...
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Would Clinton Double Some People's Taxes?
Read moreDuring the third presidential debate on October 19, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said about Hillary Clinton's tax plan, "Her plan is...
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Is Clinton's Tax Increase One of the Largest in History?
Read moreIn addition to a statement about his tax cut during the first presidential debate in late September, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said...
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Is Trump's Tax Cut the Largest Since Reagan?
Read moreDuring the first Presidential debate on September 26, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump said "my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald...
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Clinton Proposes New Taxes to Offset New Proposals
Read moreIn recent weeks, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has proposed a series of new tax breaks for small businesses and for parents in...
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Statement by Maya MacGuineas on Donald Trump's New Tax Plan
Read moreDonald Trump laid out the details of a new tax plan today. His campaign estimates it will cost $4.4 trillion, about half of the $9.25 trillion that we...
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Expanding Medical Deduction Would Add to Debt
Read moreCongress is at it again - proposing to extend tax breaks without paying for them, and add new ones in the process. Today, the House voted to expand...
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CRFB Responds to Donald Trump’s New Tax Plan
Read moreIn a speech today at the Detroit Economic Club, presidential candidate Donald Trump announced revisions to his tax reform plan, suggesting that...