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Van Hollen Proposes Middle Class Tax Cuts
Read moreAt an event at the Center for American Progress, House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) unveiled an " Action Plan" to broadly...
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Fiscal Speed Bumps Will Keep the New Congress Busy
Read moreAlthough the 114th Congress is just getting settled, it will have to move quickly to address a series of deadlines with serious policy and fiscal...
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Hatch Calls for Tax Reform in the 114th Congress
Read moreIf tax reform is going to happen in the 114th Congress, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) will be a central figure as the incoming Chairman of the Finance...
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Senator Cardin Proposes Reform With a Consumption Tax
Read moreSenator Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced the Progressive Consumption Tax Act last week that would reform the tax code and change the way that tax revenue...
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Delaney Combines Tax Reform and Infrastructure...With a Twist
Read moreTax reform has been an increasingly common way to pay for infrastructure spending in recent years. Both President Obama and outgoing House Ways and...
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Maya MacGuineas: How to Improve the Tax Extenders Bill? Start by Paying for It.
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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Senator Coburn Publishes the Tax Decoder
Read moreSenator Coburn's office yesterday published the "Tax Decoder", a 300+ page guide describing more than 165 tax expenditures. The report highlights...
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Slipping Permanent Tax Breaks into the Lame Duck
Read moreLawmakers have tried several times to revive tax provisions that expired last year and extend them permanently, at a substantial cost to the national...
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Yes, Tax Cuts Increase the Debt
Read moreWith Congress set to retroactively revive the tax extenders for the past year at a cost of $42 billion, our president, Maya MacGuineas, published a...
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Tax Extenders Deal Violates the Budget Act, Adds to Debt
Read moreThe House approved last night a deficit-increasing one-year tax extenders package. After a correction by the Joint Committee on Taxation, the updated...
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