Obama Tax Cuts Likely Soon
washingtonpost.com 12/29/2008 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...

When is a Tax Not a Tax?
dmarron.com 9/24/2009 — A critique–and, if you read far enough, a partial defense–of the President’s rhetoric about the definition of a tax. President Obama has walked into a rhetorical box on taxes. On the one hand, he campaigned on a promise not to raise ...

Obama Goes For Tax Cuts
econospeak.blogspot.com 1/6/2009 — Jonathan Weisman and Naftali Bendavid report: President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are crafting a plan to offer about $300 billion of tax cuts to individuals and businesses, a move aimed at attracting Republican support for an ...

Can Tax Cuts Help Improve The American Economy
financialages.com 20 days ago — In this article, I intend to continue discussions with Senator Obama's plan is basically to increase the relative merits of tax revenue, due to the need to save the U.S. economy, the shortcomings of the proposed tax cuts to promote Senator McCain. I intend these two senators on the current U.S. econ

Stiglitz: Just Say No to Tax Cuts
economistsview.typepad.com 1/16/2009 — Joseph Stiglitz on the tax cuts versus spending question: Do not squander America’s stimulus on tax cuts, by Joseph Stiglitz, Commentary, Financial Times : As news of the US economy worsens, worries about whether a stimulus could restart the ...

Payroll tax cuts now!
marginalrevolution.com 10/7/2009 — Support appears to be growing (finally!) for a payroll tax cut.  Here's Edmund Phelps “It’s beautiful if it can be timed at a dire moment like this, when unemployment is way too high and appears to be going somewhat higher,” said Mr. Phelps, ...

It's Time to Think Big on Tax Cuts
online.wsj.com 10/8/2008 — John McCain needs to show the nation that he has the economic recovery plan to restore long-term economic growth. To do that, he needs to refocus his campaign with a new tax plan. Mr. McCain should come out for an alternative, optional flatter tax ...

Tax Cuts vs. Government Spending
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com 2/11/2009 — As the Senate and the House look to reconcile competing stimulus plans, the big debate is whether to emphasize government spending or tax cuts. A new paper by the New York Fed's Gauti Eggertsson argues that the risk of deflation should tilt the ...

Carbon tax vs. labor tax
marginalrevolution.com 6/5/2009 — I used to think that a revenue-neutral carbon tax would, in addition to its effects on climate, have superior allocative properties over a tax on labor or capital income.  "Why not tax pollution rather than productive activity?" or ...

Tax Cuts, Government Spending, Public Goods, and the Stimulus Package
economistsview.typepad.com 1/22/2009 — Tax cuts won't build schools, or any other public good. And right now, with so much of our infrastructure in need of attention, we need public goods. We tried the tax cut approach to stimulating the economy once, we had no choice since Bush and the ...