Americans Prefer Obama Tax Plan, for Good Reason

In a happy coincidence, Obama economic advisers Jason Furman and Austan Goolsbee published an op-ed in the WSJ concerning Obama's tax plan. This op-ed led the Tax Policy Center (original source of the data used by Brill and Viard) to
Even as Barack Obama proposes fiscally responsible tax reform to strengthen our economy and restore the balance that has been lost in recent years, we hear the familiar protests and distortions from the guardians of the broken status
Nothing new on the estate tax: The Obama plan would still increase the top estate tax rate to 45 percent and set the exemption at $3.5 million per person ($7 million for couples). This third layer of tax on capital income detracts from
Charles Kaiser on parsing Obama's tax plan, and this week's media winners and sinners.
Above the Law's Fearless Leader David Lat asked me to update my earlier posts on Obama's tax plan. As you recall, Obama made a series of promises of "fixing" the tax code, mostly on the backs of investors and the upper middle-class
More realistically, many small businesses pay individual rates of taxation on profits, so while the Obama tax plan allegedly favors them, the reality is that an increase in the top tax rate will harm the very firms that Obama seeks to