Budget & FiscalThe Myth of Medicare's ExcellenceScott W. Atlas, Hoover Institution $458 Billion in Taxes Go UnpaidJeanne Sahadi, CNN Money Medicare Is Getting A Serious MakeoverCory Herro, ThinkProgress How to Tax Like DenmarkJonathan Chait, New York America's Coming Tax IncreaseEdward Paul Lazear, Hoover Institution The Myth of Medicare's ExcellenceThe Myth of Medicare's ExcellenceAs the population ages and risk factors like obesity continue to compound, Americans will increasingly require medical care at an unprecedented level. Among Democratic candidates f...(full article) $458 Billion in Taxes Go Unpaid$458 Billion in Taxes Go UnpaidBut that's not entirely intentional. Part of the problem is that every year there's an estimated $458 billion 'tax gap' -- taxes that are owed but not paid....(full article) Medicare Is Getting A Serious MakeoverMedicare Is Getting A Serious MakeoverMedicare wants to shift away from paying doctors according to number of visits, procedures, hospitalizations, and tests — and toward paying for performance....(full article) How to Tax Like DenmarkHow to Tax Like DenmarkIf Democrats want to build a generous welfare state like Denmark’s — and they should! — they’ll have to find a way to convince most Americans to pay higher ...(full article) Most Recent ArticlesThe Myth of Medicare's Excellence - Scott W. Atlas, Hoover InstitutionAs the population ages and risk factors like obesity continue to compound, Americans will increasingly require medical care at an unprecedented level. Among Democratic candidates f... $458 Billion in Taxes Go Unpaid - Jeanne Sahadi, CNN MoneyBut that's not entirely intentional. Part of the problem is that every year there's an estimated $458 billion 'tax gap' -- taxes that are owed but not paid.... Medicare Is Getting A Serious Makeover - Cory Herro, ThinkProgressMedicare wants to shift away from paying doctors according to number of visits, procedures, hospitalizations, and tests — and toward paying for performance.... How to Tax Like Denmark - Jonathan Chait, New YorkIf Democrats want to build a generous welfare state like Denmark’s — and they should! — they’ll have to find a way to convince most Americans to pay higher ... America's Coming Tax Increase - Edward Paul Lazear, Hoover InstitutionTax revenue is defined as the revenues collected from taxes on income and profits, social security contributions, taxes levied on goods and services, payroll taxes, taxes on the ow... How to Stop Soda Taxes - Richard Berman, The Washington TimesJust when you thought their tax burdens couldn’t get any bigger, three Bay Area cities, Chicago and Boulder, Colo., passed soft drink taxes last week.Soda taxes were sold as ... Where I Was Wrong: Taxes, Work, Family - Pete Spiliakos, First ThingsI spent the 1990s and the first half of the previous decade thinking way too much about cutting taxes and way too little about labor-force participation and family structure among ... Trump, Clinton, Taxes, and the Markets - Wilbur Ross & Peter Navarro, FoxSophisticated investors know that the main reason why stocks are near all-time highs is that record low interest rates have caused most asset classes to boom. Today, however, ... Drivers of Premium Increases Not Being Addressed - Andy Lazris, RCHWith political candidates sparring about the 25 percent increased premiums for Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance plans, the questions of why has this occurred and how we can amel... Tackle ACA Challenges With Employer Coverage - Mark Wilson, RCHMore than 177 million Americans receive health care benefits through employers and the favorable tax treatment of these benefits in the U.S. tax code helps protect employees and th... An Overdue Debate on Tax Policy - Marshall Steinbaum, Roosevelt ForwardThis presidential election season has had one happy byproduct: extensive public discussion of the extent to which wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes. Obviously, the revelation th... The Big Companies That Avoid Taxes - David Leonhardt, New York TimesDonald Trump has become the country’s most notorious tax shirker. And while his long avoidance of federal income taxes is extreme, it’s also part of a larger problem.Th... Obamacare Has Insured Millions - Jim Marton, Charles Courtemanche, TCThe most significant pieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare,” were implemented in 2014. These include expanding Medicaid in many states, the establishment of in... The One Budget Reform That Matters - Charles Blahous, Economics 21Proposals to reform the federal budget process are much in the air these days. While there is widespread belief that the process is broken, definitions of that breakage vary ... Clinton's Child Tax Credit - Angela Rachidi, AEIdeasThis week, Hillary Clinton proposed an expansion to the child tax credit to help low-income families “struggling with rising costs for child care, health care, caregiving, an... Preserving Medicare for the Next 50 Years - Robert E. Moffit, HeritageFor 50 years, Medicare has managed to provide seniors with continuous coverage and a strong measure of financial security. Now, in the 21st century, it is time for reforms that wil... Ryan & Trump Are Wrong on Trade Taxes - Ramesh Ponnuru, BloombergPaul Ryan and Donald Trump have, let’s say, a complicated relationship. Ryan has told the congressional Republicans he leads that he will no longer defend Trump -- not that he ev... The Tax Break that Clinton & Trump Agree on - Max Ehrenfreund, WaPoA rare moment of agreement in Sunday's town-hall debate came when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talked about managers at hedge funds and private equity firms, who enjoy a reduce... Are Teacher Pensions Really That High? - Dick Startz, Brookings InstitutionEveryone knows that teachers get great pensions and that those great pensions make up for the less-than-stellar salaries teachers earn. Everyone knows that taxpayers are getting st... Competitive Bidding in Medicare Kills - Christopher Parkin, RCHealthThe goal of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ competitive bidding program for home medical equipment was to reduce beneficiary out-of-pocket expenses and reduce... Hooked on Debt - Steven Malanga, City JournalIn November 2013, voters in the Katy Independent School District, which stretches 181 square miles in and around Houston, heatedly debated, and then voted down, a bond offering, th... Taxes and Government Not a Recipe for Growth - Daniel J. Mitchell, CatoAs you can see, these bureaucracies are singing from the same hymnal, but it’s a new version.In the past, the left agitated for higher taxes simply in hopes for having more r... The Case for Medicaid Expansion - Aaron Carroll, UpshotA rigorous analysis of the health benefits of being insured shows that Medicaid works on a number of levels. Critics of the program will point to studies that show that having M... Bill Says Cut Corporate Taxes, Hillary Says No - Alexander Hendrie, ATRFormer President Bill Clinton today called for reducing the U.S. corporate income tax rate to a globally competitive rate. Clinton is wise to do to so because America has the highe... Time for Action on Interstate Commerce Tax Bills - Caroline Harris, COCU.S. workers and businesses face enough challenges –an over-burdensome and confusing patchwork of nonresident income tax laws should not be yet another. Currently, some state... Dallas: A Platform for Ambition - Howard Husock, City JournalWhen most Americans think of Dallas, oil, football, Texas Instruments, and other symbols of robust, unapologetic free enterprise come to mind. What fewer people realize is that the... State Spending Caps No Formula for Success - Elizabeth McNichol, CBPPMost states have laws limiting spending growth — or, less often, tax revenue — according to formulas based on factors like growth in personal income, population, or inf... Clinton's Tax Conceit - Richard A. Epstein, Hoover InstitutionHillary Clinton has revealed further details of her plan for the fiscal future of the United States. Her vision addresses both sides of the equation: how and from whom taxes should... Will the Texas Model Be a Victim of Its Own Success? - Mark Pulliam, CJJohn Steinbeck once called Texas “a mystique closely approximating a religion”—and today, the Lone Star State remains full of myth, mystery, and paradox. Yet, as ... Trump & Clinton Childcare Plans Are Both Flawed - Bryce Covert, TNRDonald Trump made headlines this week when he became the first Republican presidential nominee ever to put forward plans to ensure paid maternity leave and tackle the high cost of ... Historic Gains on Poverty? - Rebecca Vallas, Katherine Gallagher Robbins, TPYesterday the Census Bureau released new data showing that Americans made historic gains in income, poverty reduction, and health insurance. Wonks everywhere predicted good news&md... Europe Gets Apple Right - Richard A. Epstein, Hoover InstitutionOn August 30, the European Commission issued a blockbuster ruling that required Ireland to recoup, with interest, the €13 billion in tax benefits that it has granted Apple sin... Trump's Child Care Proposal Empowers Daddy Gov't - Logan Albright, CRDonald Trump has unveiled a set of new policies designed to reduce the cost of child care, presumably in an attempt to reach out to female voters — a demographic with which h... Medicaid: A Breathtaking Campaign of Thievery - Kevin Williamson, NR"Waste, abuse, and fraud.” These are the words politicians say when you ask them what it is they would cut to balance the budget. If they’re really wonky, they might add “dup... ACOs Complicate Obamacare Narrative - James C. Capretta, RCPolicyDr. Ashish Jha did us all a favor recently by pulling back the curtain on the Obama administration’s recent press release touting the supposed success of the Accountable Care Org... The On-Demand Economy - James C. Capretta, The Aspen InstituteJim Capretta of the American Enterprise Institute examines our existing social safety net to determine which types of benefits are already portable and which could be reformed to a... Obamacare Shrinks Economy w/ Medicaid Expansion - Hans Bader, CEIObamacare’s expansion of Medicaid reduced employment in those states that participated in it by a statistically significant extent, according to a recent study by Georgetown ... Stop "Unauthorized Spending" - Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Tim Phillips, WPWhy doesn’t the government seem to be getting any smaller?From the owners of small-town mom-and-pop stores drowning in red tape to families struggling to plan for the future,... Regulation Even a Regulator Doesn't Like - The Wall Street JournalDoes Jack Lew listen to anybody outside the White House? We ask because nearly all of American business, most of Congress and some in his own Treasury Department hate his new busin... An Odd Conservative Argument About Welfare - Jordan Weissmann, SlateThis week marked the 20th anniversary of welfare reform, the landmark legislation signed into law by Bill Clinton that many on the left, myself included, have accused of eviscerati... Can California Voters Make Responsible Policy? - Carson Bruno, RCMThis November, Californians - in addition to electing or re-electing local, states, and federal office-holders - will be deciding the fate of at least seventeen statewide ballot me... A Comprehensive Policy Agenda for a New Administration - HeritageThe Heritage Foundation is publishing a three-part Mandate for Leadership Series of documents over the course of 2016. Each document educates the American public, specifically incl... Where Should Multinationals Be Taxed? - Michael Mandel, PPIWhich countries should have the right to tax the profits of US-based multinationals that operate globally? A year ago we pointed out that this seemingly arcane question had the pot... The Wrong Way to Stop Corporate Inversions - Eric Peterson, RCPolicyThe federal government has a bad habit of conjuring new regulatory powers seemingly out of nothing. Especially troubling is a new regulation proposed by the Treasury Department tha... Hillary's "Checkpoint Clinton" Tax Plan - John Hart, Opportunity LivesDonald Trump made himself infamous to critics for saying he wanted to build a wall on the southern border and make Mexico pay for it. But Hillary Clinton deserves equal scorn for w... Clinton's Economic Plan Takes W.Va. Nationwide - John Tamny, RCMarketsListening to presidential nominees discuss their economic proposals is like watching children list what they want from Santa Claus. What children and politicians want, and what the... Doctors Want More Face Time, Not Screen Time - Michael Hamilton, RCHThe health care industry has entered a brave new world in which doctors spend up to half the length of each appointment looking past their patients at their computer monitors. Desp... Clinton's Tax Increases Will Hurt Economy - Donald Lambro, Wash. TimesThroughout his two terms in the White House, Barack Obama has either exaggerated or covered up his failed record on the economy.Soon after taking office in the midst of a deep rece... Conservatives Lost the Social Security Fight - Jeremy Slevin, Talk PovertyEarlier this summer, lawmakers introduced a bill to “save” Social Security that reads like a desperate attempt to appeal to the growing movement to expand the program. ... Florida Low Income Pool and Medicaid Expansion - Anne Swerlick, RCHThe Medicaid Low Income Pool (LIP) is very much an “inside baseball” topic limited to a small universe of health care providers, budget gurus, and policy wonks. But the... Reducing Inequality Won't Grow Our Economy - Andrew F. Puzder, ForbesAfter seven years of anemic economic growth, working class Americans are facing limited job opportunities, stagnant wages, a diminishing middle class and, as a consequence, increas... What's Slowing Growth? Not Government's Size - Jared Bernstein, WaPoI’m willing to accept that, at least for now, I’ve got an illness that causes me to see everything through the lens of the presidential election. However, much in the way some ... The Blue State Model Has Failed - Richard A. Epstein, Hoover InstitutionThe defining economic truth of the last decade has been the want of sustained growth. Progressives and classical liberals agree that economic growth is a good thing, but they diffe... What Ails Indian Country - Carla T. Main, City JournalObserving the plight of American Indians on his trip to the United States in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville noted that Americans’ conduct “toward the natives . . . breathe... Mr. Trump's Losing Economic Game Plan - Editorial Board, NYTimesDonald Trump said on Monday that he wanted to usher in “economic renewal,” but most of his proposals would hurt the economy, rack up huge deficits, accelerate climate change an... The Fiscal Challenges of the Post-Obama Era - James C. Capretta, RCPolicyAs President Barack Obama approaches the end of his time in office, the United States is approaching a fiscal day of reckoning.That’s apparent in two startling reports on the bud... Indiana: Don't Replicate KY Medicaid Waiver - Judith Solomon, CBPPA state-commissioned evaluation that finds serious issues with Indiana’s Medicaid waiver (the Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0, or HIP 2.0), provides further evidence that a proposal... Don't Wait for Washington to Fix Health Care - Paul Howard, RCPolicyDemocratic and Republican governors know that rising health-care costs — for public employees and those with Medicaid — are, increasingly, restricting spending on other state p... Time for Democrats to Embrace Tax Reform - Pete Sepp, The InquirerDemocratic party leaders have their work cut out. Coming off a divisive primary, Hillary Clinton faces no small task in bridging divides in the party's core constituency while at t... An Unprecedented Medicaid Work Requirement - Jesse Cross-Call, CBPPKentucky Governor Matt Bevin has proposed a Medicaid waiver that would require adult beneficiaries without dependent children to work or volunteer at least 20 hours a week to recei... Social Security Helps Twice As Many Children - Maya Rockeymoore, TPThere is a key element missing in the ongoing debate about Social Security’s future: an understanding of the impact the program has on children. It’s not just tha... America's Entitlements Explosion - Nicholas Eberstadt, AEIAmerica’s Entitlements ExpansionStatement before the House Judiciary CommitteeEconomics, Public EconomicsDownload the PDF... Government Stimulation Causes Stagnation - John Tamny, RCMarketsWest Virginia Senator Robert Byrd died in 2010 as the longest serving U.S. senator of all time. While in office, Byrd predictably amassed a lot of power such that he was able to sh... Social Security's Conundrum - Tejesh Pradhan & James C. Capretta, RCPolicySince its enactment in 1935, Social Security has become one of the most popular and effective federal programs. At the end of 2015, according to the recently published trustees’ ... SF Tech Tax Is Not a Solution to Homelessness - Tom Giovanetti, RCPolicyIf higher taxes were the cure for homelessness, California — and San Francisco, in particular — would have solved its homeless problem years ago. In reality, San F... Ryan's Way - Paul Howard, City JournalLast week, House speaker Paul Ryan issued the long-awaited health-care component of the GOP’s election-year agenda. It’s not a full-blown Obamacare replacement bill, bu... House GOP Health Plan Seriously Flawed - Robert Greenstein, CBPPThe House Republican health plan is seriously flawed. Because it would repeal or severely weaken health reform’s coverage expansions, force people to rely instead on a ... Social Security: Gut or Expand It? - Robert VerBruggen, ACSocial Security has been running a deficit since 2010, and in 2034, its “trust fund”—more or less just a tally of previous surpluses—will run out. Left and ... GOP Poverty Plan Hurts Vulnerable Children - Kathleen Romig, CBPPThe House GOP poverty plan would eliminate Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for 1.3 million severely disabled children in poor families, vaguely proposing to re-orient S... The Rich Don't Just Pay Their 'Fair Share' of Taxes - Mark J. Perry, AEIThis is an updated and revised version of a CD post from last year that generated nearly 300 comments because of the controversial nature of the topic – whether “the rich” ... We're Going to Need More Tax Revenue - Jared Bernstein, ProspectI recently testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means, the people who write tax law. The alleged topic of the hearing was how to generate faster economic growth, but wh... Obama's Social Security Failure - Robert J. Samuelson, Washington PostPresident Obama unintentionally damaged his legacy recently by urging an expansion of Social Security benefits and, thereby, reminding everyone (and particularly future historians)... Entitlement Reform Is an Absolute Necessity - James C. Capretta, RCPolicyDespite what presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have been saying on the campaign trail, the need to reform the nation’s major entitlement programs canno... Where Does All the Money Go? - Heritage FoundationIn 2015, major entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, and other health care programs—consumed 52 percent of all federal spending, while the portio... Higher Taxes Will Make the Rich Happier - Robert H. Frank, LATimesFew of the United States’ most successful people would have done nearly as well if they’d been born in South Sudan. That’s why our social contract asks those who&... Improving Entitlement Programs - Andrew Biggs, James Capretta et al., AEIKey PointsRapid growth in entitlement spending is threatening to push the federal government past the point of insolvency—a fiscal challenge largely ignored by the nation&rsq... Social Security: From Fantasy to Talking Point - Stephanie Taylor, NationThe idea of expanding Social Security never really seemed possible. In fact, until recently, things seemed bleak. Just a few years ago, in 2012 and 2013, Republicans were pushing t... Is Obamacare Feeding the Trial Lawyers? - Bryan Rotella, The HillThis summer marks over 40 years since the release of Steve Spielberg's masterpiece "Jaws."The film depicts a blood-hungry great white shark lurking under the surface, stalking a sm... A Guaranteed Income for Every American - Charles Murray, WSJWhen people learn that I want to replace the welfare state with a universal basic income, or UBI, the response I almost always get goes something like this: “But people will ... Of Course We Can Afford a Universal Basic Income - Tim Worstall, ForbesOne of the arguments against a universal basic income is that we can’t actually afford one. Whatever amount that we were able to pay to everyone simply wouldn’t be larg... Pres. Obama's Huge Reversal on Social Security - Dylan Matthews, VoxSocial Security hasn't really been a major issue in Barack Obama's presidency. Insofar as it came up at all, it was in the context of Obama's attempts to reach a "grand bargain" wi... Senator Unveils Regulatory Budget Bill - Tim Devaney & Lydia Wheeler, HillSen. Mike Lee unveiled legislation Wednesday that would force the president to draft a separate annual budget request for regulations.Under the Regulatory Budget Act, introduced in... Budget 'Trigger' Might Reduce Spending - Philip Wegmann, Daily SignalConservatives are considering a budget compromise that would reduce spending by $30 billion unless the House is able to pass at least 10 appropriations bills.The “trigger&rdq... Some Republicans Actually Want to Expand Medicaid - Cory Herro, TPThis month, California’s top Republican lawmakers asked Gov. Jerry Brown (D) what may seem like an unusual request. They want to spend more money on the state’s Medicai... Clinton: Let Americans 'Buy In' to Medicare - Matthew Yglesias, VoxCampaigning in Virginia this week, Hillary Clinton revived an idea that was once a staple of liberal thinking about how to improve the Affordable Care Act — letting older Ame... Ready to Tax the Rich? - Kenneth Scheve & David Stasavage, The ConversationEconomic inequality is high and rising. At the same time, many governments are struggling to balance budgets while maintaining spending for popular programs.That’s prompted s... Taxing Rich Colleges Would Be Harmful - Editorial Board, Bloomberg Viewmerica's universities have become behemoths -- the result of swelling donations, rising tuitions and growing anxiety among parents that their children cannot succeed without colleg... Trump Open to Raising Taxes - Shoshana Weissman, Weekly StandardDays after Donald Trump's last Republican opponent dropped out of the race, Trump is beginning to sound more liberal on economic policy.On Sunday, Trump told Chuck Todd that he's o... Facts Turn Tide Against Soda Taxes? - Baylen Linnekin, ReasonSoda taxes, which are uniformly awful, have made national and international headlines in recent weeks.Despite a ballyhooed soda tax, it seems soda sales are rebounding in Mexico. S... We Need Social Security Solutions, Not Myths - Marc Goldwein, RCPolicyThere’s an old saying that Social Security is the third rail of American politics — touch it and you die. That’s unfortunate, given that Social Security is on a p... Maryland Speeds Ex-Inmates' Medicaid Access - Jay Hancock, KHNSeeking to slash the red tape that keeps ex-prisoners with mental illness, drug addiction and other ailments from getting health coverage, Maryland is proposing to give thousands o... It's a Great Time to Be a Multinational Corporation - Jim Roumell, WaPoU.S. multinational corporations disproportionately benefit from the nation’s infrastructure and research and development expenditures because they increase company revenue an... The Child Credit and Taxpayer Confusion - Naomi E. Feldman et al., AEAWe develop an empirical test for whether households understand or misperceive their marginal tax rate. Our identifying variation comes from the loss of the Child Tax Credit when a ... Let's Hear It for Tax and Spend - Robert Kuttner, Huffington PostThere was a truly silly dogfight last week between the Clinton and Sanders camps on who was the worse offender when it came to possibly raising taxes on the middle class. Clinton h... We'll Fix Social Security By Not Fixing It - Robert Tracinski, The FederalistThe little-recognized implication of this year’s election is that we are never going to fix Social Security.... Income Taxes Should Change during Recessions - Liscow & Woolston, TLRThis paper offers recommendations for how the design of labor income taxes should change during recessions, based on a simple model of a recessionary economy in which jobs are rati... Kansas' Disastrous Tax Cuts - Jordan Weissmann, SlateIn 2012, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback attempted to turn his state into a showcase for hardcore conservative policy thinking by passing a package of tax cuts so berserk that, even... A Right to Free Tax Preparation? - Marc D. Joffe, RealClearPolicyThe founders knew we all had the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but they apparently did not know that we also have the right to free online tax-preparation ... Expand Social Security - Dylan Matthews, VoxAs markets go, the market for retirement savings is pretty awful. In a good world, there just wouldn't be much money to be made on helping people sock money away in 401(k)s and IRA... Blame Tax Preparers for Complicated Returns - Helaine Olen, Slate“You life is busy, growing,” goes an ad touting H&R Block’s most recent offering, Block Advisors. “That means tax complexity.” What the ... The Best and Worst Ideas for Tax Reform - Ryan Ellis, RealClearPolicyTax Day is upon us, but the reality is that America's current tax code is a millstone around the necks of families year-round. It punishes employers who choose to open businesses i... Hillary Clinton's Capital Gains Tax Proposal - Pamela Villarreal, NCPAPresidential candidate Hillary Clinton has vowed to raise taxes on the wealthy if she becomes president. Taxing the wealthy is politically popular since it is assumed that few pe... Do Tax Refunds Boost the Economy? - Haley Sweetland Edwards, TimeTax Day has a reputation for doom and gloom, but for most of us, there’s a silver lining: the promise of a little extra scratch.... N.M. Denies Tax Refunds to Undocumented - Daniel C. Vock, GoverningEven though he is an immigrant with no Social Security number, Roberto Sanchez filed income tax returns with the state of New Mexico every year for nearly decade without incident. ... Understanding Middle Class Tax Cuts - Alex Brill, AEIMiddle-class tax relief has widespread support across the political spectrum, but the consequences of different strategies for achieving this goal are not well understood. Using a ... Tax Policy Is Widening the Gender Gap - Victoria Bateman, Bloomberg ViewWith British politicians, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, making public their tax affairs, the OECDs new Taxing Wagesreport could not have come at a better time. For thos... Do GE and Verizon Pay Their Share of Taxes? - Bob McIntyre, CTJRighteous indignation can be very effective, but sometimes it’s not all that righteous. Such is the case with recent op-eds penned by the CEOs of General Electric and Verizon... What Progressive Tax Reform Looks Like - Jason Furman, DemocracyWe face two broad challenges in reforming our federal tax system. First, the policy challenge: how to reform the system to make it more efficient, simple, and fair. And second, the... How and Why We Budget - Tom Price & Todd Rokita, RealClearPoliticsThe American people are frustrated. For too long, they have seen too many in Washington standing in the way of responsible decisions that need to be made to secure our country&rsqu... Paying for Medicare Now and in the Future - Rettenmaier & Saving, NCPAMedicare celebrated its golden anniversary this past year. The program now provides insurance coverage for over 50 million Americans, and accounts for 20 percent of the nation&rsqu... Complex Tax Code Is Crippling America - Chris Edwards, TimeOn the presidential campaign trail, the candidates seem far apart on tax policy. The Democrats favor tax hikes on high earners, and the Republicans favor tax cuts all around. But w... Fixing Corporate Double Taxation - Robert Pozen, RealClearMarketsSenator Hatch, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is focusing on an important aspect of the agenda for corporate tax reform -- -- allowing U.S. corporations to receive a ded... Is It Finally Time for Tax Reform? - Joseph Lawler, Washington ExaminerNearly 30 years have elapsed since the last overhaul of the U.S. tax code.... Medicare Part B Plan: Winners and Losers - Fauzea Hussain, AvalereA new Avalere analysis finds that proposed Medicare payment changes for physician-administered drugs would reduce reimbursement for those that cost more than $480 per day in 2016. ... End Social Security For the Rich - Stuart Butler, RealClearMarketsThe long-term finances of Social Security are in bad shape. Its reserves are expected to run out in less than 20 years, and under current law that will force cuts in benefits.... A Tax Haven That May Surprise You: The U.S. - Wiseman & Gordon, APThe U.S. lambastes and strong-arms countries that help drug lords and millionaire investors hide their money from tax collectors. Critics say it should look closer to home.... Calculator: How Candidate Tax Plans Affect You - Mark Paul et al., NationLast week, Vox published an article titled “This simple calculator tells you how each presidential candidate’s tax plan affects you.” It couldn’t be m... The Crucial Importance of Tax Havens - John Tamny, RealClearMarketsUSA Today described as "jaw-dropping" Sunday's "Panama Papers" revelation about a "global network of offshore companies helping the wealthy hide their assets." The less emotio... Medicaid and the Entitlement Reform Debate - Douglas Holtz-Eakin, AAFThe need for entitlement reform should be obvious to anyone. Social Security will slash retiree benefits in two decades without a course correction, Medicare spews red ink and low-... Medicare Pays for Some Drugs Twice - Robert Pear, New York TimesHospices often bill Medicare for a higher level of care than patients need, and Medicare often pays twice for the prescription drugs provided to people who are ... |
