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The Medicare Eligibility Age: Demographics and Medical Care Spending
In contrast to Social Security Reform, we do not find a large effect of potential increases in the age of eligibility on the long-term ability to finance medical spending. This is partly because the...
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Washington’s Definition of Middle Class
I saw this proposal in Lori Montgomery’s article on fiscal cliff talks yesterday: Fresh tax revenue, generated in part by raising rates on the wealthy, as Obama wants, and in part by limiting their...
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Fiscal Cliff Policy Links
Credit: Washington Post Since Corporate Taxes are on the table and extended unemployment insurance is set to expire, here are some relevant links: Corporate Taxes: Is broadening the base to lower the...
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The Pace of the Recovery: Output and Employment Growth Since 1985
Laura Tyson has a piece today on the slow pace of the recovery: Since 2010, annual growth of gross domestic product has averaged about 2.1 percent. This is less than half the average pace of recoveries...
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Repatriation Holidays
Many companies have been pushing for a repatriation holiday and recent reports have highlighted how much cash is held overseas. A little more than half the companies in the Fortune 500 have at least...
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Raising Another Trillion in Revenues
Larry Summers argues it’s plausible that we can raise another $1 trillion+ over the next ten years – here’s how: The failure to tax capital gains at the point of death costs the federal government...
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More Progressive Ways to Reduce Social Security Spending than Chained CPI
Dylan Matthews has a great post discussing more progressive cuts to social security than Chained CPI. He includes the option of altering the Preliminary Issuance Amount, which is determined by a...
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Macroadvisers on the Effects of the Fiscal Cliff
We’re often asked how much of a drag on growth is associated with each of the provisions of current law that usually are described as comprising the fiscal cliff. The table below presents such results...
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Broad-Based Tax Increases Are Rare
Zach Goldfarb has a story today that points out how rare broad-based tax increases are. I posted earlier about the history of individual income tax changes at the federal level – here is a similar...
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Are House Republicans Actually Behaving Rationally?
Nate Silver has a fascinating post on this question. Here’s his answer: Individual members of Congress are responding fairly rationally to their incentives. Most members of the House now come from...
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White House’s 30 Second Case for the American Taxpayer Relief Act
Brian Deese makes the case for the 2012 Revenue Deal
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Shrinking Revenue Offers
Jared Bernstein has a nice, but depressing chart on various revenue offers between Obama and Boehner.
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