Today, we sat down with Chuck Marr, the Center’s Director of Federal Tax Policy, to discuss upcoming Congressional action on the estate tax.
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Chuck, let’s begin with a quick review of what the...
With Congress returning from recess next week, we’ll post a quiz each morning this week on a key issue facing lawmakers this fall. Today’s topic: President Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, which are due to expire at the end of this year.
This week on Off the Charts, we discussed the economy, the looming debate on taxes, and health reform implementation.
The Center on Budget & Policy Priorities is one of sixteen organizations participating in Connecting Kids to Coverage, a five-year public-private campaign launched this February by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to help the five million uninsured children who are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP to enroll in coverage.
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Robert Rubin and Julian Robertson make some compelling arguments for restoring the federal estate tax (in “Bring Back the Estate Tax Now”).
Today we sat down with Chuck Marr, Director of Federal Tax Policy at the Center, to discuss the debate about taxes that will take center stage when Congress returns after Labor Day.
This week on Off the Charts, we discussed the economy, why President Bush’s tax cuts for high-income households should expire on schedule, the tough budget choices states are making, Social Security, and the health reform law.
To correct some recent stories suggesting that Social Security faces deep and immediate financial problems, a new report from our colleague Kathy Ruffing outlines the program’s outlook over the short and long term. Here’s the summary:
Robert Greenstein, the Center’s executive director, and John Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, explain why President Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy should expire on schedule in December in this op-ed published in the Financial Times:
Today we sat down with Senior Fellow, Liz McNichol, to discuss why some states have ended their fiscal year with budgets in the black even as the state budget crisis continues.
