Taxes

Robert Samuelson: Why Trump’s Tax Reform Won’t Work

By Jacqueline Leo

It’s hard to imagine that tax reform is No. 1 on the Republicans’ to-do list when they still don’t have a 2018 budget. Worse, they still haven’t agreed to raise the debt ceiling, as the federal...
Gary Cohn: Here's What We Want From Tax Reform

By Michael Rainey

Gary Cohn, President Trump’s top economic adviser, told the Financial Times Friday that the White House will begin a sustained push on tax reform starting next week. The president will hit the road...
Wild About Tax Cuts, Wall Street Forgets Its Deficit Worries

By Yuval Rosenberg

Max Abelson at Bloomberg Businessweek details how the titans of Wall Street and others in finance — think Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, Bank of America’s Brian...
Where’s Trump on Tax Reform Push?

By Yuval Rosenberg

The push to promote tax reform to the public is on in force: House Speaker Paul Ryan talked about it at a visit to Intel yesterday and again today at Boeing in Everett, Washington. House Republicans...
Corporate America Is Putting Its Muscle Behind Tax Reform Push

By Michael Rainey

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is visiting Intel Corp. in Oregon today, and it’s not just to discuss the latest computer chips. Ryan’s trip is part of a larger effort by Republicans — and...

Tax Reform Consensus Taking Shape — but Can It Last?

By Yuval Rosenberg

The “Big Six” members of Congress and the Trump administration negotiating a tax reform package are making progress. The group has reached a “broad consensus” on the key question of how to pay for...
When Politicians Start Talking ‘Tax Reform,’ Check Your Wallet

By Rob Garver

If Congress ever actually gets around to pursuing tax reform, voters should expect to hear lots of talk about the benefits that would derive from an overhaul of the nation’s barnacle-encrusted tax...
Here’s How Trump Could Get Democrats’ Help on Tax Reform

By Rob Garver

The Trump administration has been reaching out to ‘Blue Dog’ Democrats to talk about possible areas of agreement on tax reform.
Are You Rich? Tax Reform May Answer That Question for You

By YLAN Q. MUI, CNBC

Whether to raise taxes on the rich is one of the thorniest issues in tax reform. Underlying that debate is an even more fundamental question: Who exactly qualifies as wealthy? Everyone can agree that...
Meet the Man Who Could Determine Your Tax Bill Next Year

By Rob Garver

All the promises coming from the Trump administration and the Republican leadership in Congress about plans to enact a massive rewrite of the federal tax code have been greeted with caution by much...

Why Paul Ryan May Be the One to Beat in 2016

By Eric Pianin

Stung by President Obama’s pummeling of the Romney-Ryan GOP presidential ticket last November, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) had appeared to fade from view. “He seems to have fallen entirely off the radar of...
Time to Ditch Obamacare--a Plan to Rob Taxpayers

By Liz Peek

Where do we go from here? With 57 percent of Americans now opposing the Affordable Care Act according to an ABC/Washington Post Poll, and with a steady drip of bad news likely to further undermine...
Baucus Pushes Plan to Recover $2 Trillion in Corporate Profits

By LORI MONTOMERY, The Washington Post

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus began unveiling specific options for overhauling the tax code Tuesday, arguing that the issue may yet have “political potency.”
Obamacare Individual Mandate May Be Next to Fall

By Eric Pianin

The White House earlier this year granted large employers a one-year reprieve from having to offer health insurance coverage to their employees. Then last week, President Obama asked insurance...
How Our Sprawling Nanny State Is Putting Parents Out of Work

By ROBERT WEISSBERG, The Fiscal Times

Everyone is aware of SNAP (food stamps), the mother of all food handouts, where over 47.8 million people participate at an annual cost of $81 billion. But awareness of the sprawling array of other...

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