Interesting Tax Idea
If the President's new deficit commission comes up with
Taxes
Feb 15, 2010 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics| Budgets & Projections| Budget Process| Health Care| Taxes
‘Line’ Items: Commissions, Summits, Caps and Dogs
Commission Coming – The White House says President Obama will create a fiscal commission by executive order within days. Meanwhile, Republicans...
Feb 1, 2010 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Economics| Budget Process| Taxes| Other Spending
President Releases $3.8 Trillion Budget
President Obama released a Fiscal 2011 budget request today that would spend some $3.8
TPC Takes the Tax Challenge with Income Tax Rates
We recently invited folks to take the spending challenge and show how they would close the budget gap without raising taxes (or alternatively, take...
Obama Proposes Bank Fee to Recoup Bailout Costs
President Obama has
Moving the Tax Expiration Goal Posts
The President may choose to submit a budget in which he extends the Bush tax cuts only temporarily—say for two years, rather than permanently...
Obama Said to Support Tax on Health Insurance
According to the Associated Press, President Obama has encour
Tough Challenge Facing Obama Administration in Last Days of Budget Deliberations
Today’s New York Times article on the difficulty President Obama faces in keeping his promise about deficit reduction and tax cuts,
Note to Citi: Get Your Fiscal House In Order!
The IRS has agreed to give up billions in tax money in exchange for Citigroup’s repurchase of $20 billion of its assets held by TARP.
Dec 15, 2009 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics| Budget Process| Health Care| Social Security| Taxes
Event Recap: Release of 'Red Ink Rising'
On December 14, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform