Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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GOP Leaders Take on Far Right Pressure Groups
By Eric PianinThere have been plenty of theories about why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) strode onstage at a conservative gathering late last week carrying a rifle. Ostensibly, McConnell, the 72-...
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Some CEOs Are Still Cashing In at Our Expense
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesMany of the highest paid CEOs might be ripping off stockholders and taxpayers, according to a study released Wednesday by the progressive Institute for Policy Studies.
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Tax Reform Could Be Easier Than Congress Thinks
The conservative-leaning Tax Foundation issued a press release Monday touting some “good news for tax reformers”: An analysis by experts at the foundation found that a plan to dramatically simplify...
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‘The Daily Show’ Explains Why Our ‘Chicken$#!&’ Congress Hasn’t Reformed the Tax Code
Congress may be out on its month-long August recess, but that doesn’t mean “The Daily Show” stops its skewering. Last night, host John Oliver took on our broken tax code – and used the issue to take...
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How 21 Major Corporations Dodged $93B in Taxes
By Eric Pianin and Josh BoakTwenty-one of the top 100 publicly traded U.S. corporations – including such big names as Goldman Sachs, Apple and Walt Disney – have avoided paying $93 billion a year in federal taxes by parking...
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Obama’s Bargain: Lower Rates for Higher Spending
By Eric PianinPresident Obama intends to make one last pitch for a “grand bargain” of new spending and tax policy on Tuesday that will attempt to marry corporate tax reform with funding for jobs to benefit the...
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Ominous Signs for the GOP in 2014
By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal TimesThe conventional wisdom is that Republicans are in good shape going into next year’s congressional elections. Gerrymandering and the enormous benefits of incumbency virtually guarantee them continued...
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Trading Tax Write-Offs for Real Growth
By Andrew Fieldhouse, The Fiscal TimesOverhauling the tax code is a wonky fixation of the D.C. policymaking elite, for good reason — it’s an area loaded with policy nuance, lobbying intrigue and major ramifications for long-term fiscal...
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IRS Scandal: How the Brouhaha Went Bust
By Peter Weber, TheWeek.comRep. Darrell Issa is still banging the scandal drum. Is anyone listening anymore?
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Beer, Burgers, and a Two-Man Blitz on Tax Reform
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesSen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) are keeping hope alive that the tax code can be rewritten. Both peg the odds of successful reform at more than 50 percent, according to a joint lunch...
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States Eye $11 Billion Windfall from Online Sales Tax
By Daniel Vock, StatelineThe days of shopping online without paying sales taxes may be ending. States are cracking down and a nationwide system for collecting sales tax on online sales may be coming soon.
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Obama Budget Hits Millionaires with New Tax Hikes
By Mark Felsenthal and Jeff Mason, ReutersThe White House on Wednesday proposed a budget that sharply trims the U.S. deficit over three years by forcing millionaires to pay more in taxes and enacting spending cuts that replace the "sequester...
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How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? (Hint: Much Higher)
By Andrew Fieldhouse, The Fiscal TimesThe U.S. economy is mired in a depression. Output is running $975 billion, or 5.8 percent, below its noninflationary potential as the result of a huge demand shortfall in the aftermath of the housing...
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D.C.’s Summer Olympics: Let the Government Games Begin
By Dan Balz, The Washington PostCongress returns to work this week facing a crowded legislative agenda and one big question for President Obama and GOP lawmakers: Can Washington govern? At no time since the earliest days of Obama’s...
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Chained CPI Could Raise Taxes on Lower Middle Class
By Eric PianinWhile much of the controversy over President Obama’s proposal for tweaking the consumer price index has centered on the impact it would have in cutting long term Social Security benefits for seniors...