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The long-standing impasse on tax policy has basically boiled down to this: Democrats want more revenue, raised entirely from households with incomes over $250,000. Republicans don’t want any new revenue, and especially not from higher tax rates on the rich.…


The country needs a very different type of tax reform today than it did when Congress passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986, according to former Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers. (more…)


Prospects for constructive budget talks between President Obama and congressional leaders seem to have brightened after an initial meeting at the White House late last week. The signals that came out of that meeting were “very good,” according to Concord…


At last week’s 105th annual conference of the National Tax Association in Providence, R.I., former Clinton Treasury secretary and Obama economic advisor Lawrence Summers explained that the tax reform needed today is very different from the Tax Reform Act of…


Diane Lim, chief economist of The Concord Coalition, became president of the National Tax Association for the coming year at the NTA’s annual conference last week in Providence, R.I. (more…)


Nov 19, 2012
Signals from the first post-election budget meeting between the President and congressional leaders, which took place at the White House on Friday, were very good. Congressional leaders of both parties appeared together after the meeting. There were no lines in…


This is Part I of a two-part series of posts on the presidential candidates' fiscal policies. Part II examines President Obama's plans. As election day approaches, it is appropriate to look at what we know and what we don’t know…


At a forum last week in New York, business executives and former federal officials offered their views on how best to reform the tax code in ways that could promote economic growth as well as put the federal budget on…


As part of the Strengthening of America -- Our Children's Future project that The Concord Coalition is co-sponsoring, a forum was held last week in New York on the topic of pro-growth tax reform. The video of the full event is…


With public attention shifting from the party conventions to the fall campaign and the presidential debates that start in early October, advocates of federal budget reform are renewing their calls for more substantial political discussion of the country’s fiscal and…


The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new projections last week that show why Washington should commit to long-term fiscal reforms while dealing with some important budget decisions that must be made by the end of this year. “Once again, CBO’s…


President Obama signed legislation last week requiring the administration to report within 30 days on how it plans to implement “automatic” spending cuts that are required next year because a congressional “super committee” failed to agree on a deficit-reduction plan.…

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