The entitlements no one is talking about
Here is an article I just published in The Fiscal Times, prompted in part by Leonard Burman's work, on the staggering size and automatic growth of "tax expenditures" -- tax breaks, for us...
View ArticleUniversity Tax Arbitrage Examined By CBO
The Congressional Budget Office has a well deserved reputation for excellent analysis and for "calling them as they see them." On April 30, CBO analyzed tax arbitrage by U.S. colleges and universities....
View ArticleA Cafeteria Plan for Tax Expenditures
Martin Feldstein makes such a proposal in The Washington Post today in "How To Cut the Deficit Without Raising Taxes." Here is the main idea:Here is a practical alternative toward the same end:...
View Article"Spending-Like Tax Preferences" Were 4% of GDP In 2007.
That's a lot of spending through the Tax Code as described by Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center Director Donald Marron at lunch today before the National Economists Club -- between $600 billion and...
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