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The regressivity of across-the-board rate cuts
My colleague Lori Montgomery has a great piece this morning on a new study from the Tax Policy Center on Mitt Romney's tax reform plan. Actually, it's more of a framework than a plan, as Romney does...
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The official poverty rate last year was 15 percent. Here’s what that misses.
The official poverty rate for 2012 is 15 percent, exactly the same as 2011. But you shouldn't put too much credence in that number, as this post (originally posted in September 2012) explains. For...
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Want welfare? There isn’t an app for that.
Low participation rates are a chronic problem with American safety net programs. Government figures suggest that SNAP, or food stamps, reached only 75 percent of eligible people in 2010, while...
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The U.S. has a very transparent budget office. That’s a big deal.
We at Wonkblog love the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities like family, and we hope you do too. But did you know they have an international branch? The International Budget Partnership focuses on...
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Bobby Jindal wants to swap Louisiana’s income tax with a sales tax. Good luck...
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) The new hot policy among GOP lawmakers at the state level appears to be expanding the sales tax — or, at least, using it to replace other...
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The single best chart on the policies driving our deficits — now updated!
At the end of this Center for Budget and Policy Priorities paper is a terribly sad note: "This represents the final update of an analysis that we first produced in 2009 and have updated once or twice...
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