Basic Needs (Education, Health, Housing, Income and Retirement)
Education:
News
- Speaker Pelosi Calls House Back into Session to Provide Medicaid and Education Funding, and Close Offshore Corporate Tax Loopholes - 08/06/2010
- President Obama Should Expand Government Performance Reviews to Include Tax Expenditures - 03/17/2009
- New Report from Citizens for Tax Justice: President Obama's First Budget Proposal - 03/12/2009
- New CTJ Report Compares Tax Cuts in House Stimulus Proposals -- Includes State-by-State Estimates - 01/26/2009
- For more articles on Education from the Tax Justice Digest click here.
Reports
- The Alternative Minimum Tax Is Not a Middle-Class Tax - 04/05/2012
- President Obama's FY2011 Budget: Federal Government Should Collect at Least as Much Revenue as Obama Proposes - 02/10/2010
- Impact of Selected Tax Cuts in Final Economic Stimulus Bill, State-by-State - 02/13/2009
- Poorest 60% of Taxpayers Get No Benefit from Reduction in Alternative Minimum Tax Included in Senate Stimulus Bill - 02/11/2009
- House Proposal to Pay for AMT Relief by Closing Loopholes Would Make the Tax Code Fairer and Avoid Increasing the Deficit - 06/20/2008
- House Budget Plan Deals with Tax Policy in a More Responsible Way than the Senate Version - 03/20/2008
- Senate Must Choose EITHER Offshore Tax Avoidance Schemes for Wealthy Elite OR AMT Relief for 23 Million Taxpayers - 12/13/2007
- Letter from House Members to Leadership Demanding AMT Relief Cost be Offset, Citing CTJ Figures - 12/12/2007
- Republican Senators Block Bill to Pay for AMT Relief; Force Senate to Turn to Borrowing $50 Billion - 12/07/2007
- Congress & Public Face Stark Choice on AMT - 11/15/2007
- Congressman Rangel's Tax Bill Would Make the Tax Code Simpler & Fairer -- and the Changes Are All Paid For - 11/02/2007
- Taxpayers Likely to Pay the AMT in Tax Year 2007 Under Current Law, By State - 04/09/2007
- A Progressive Solution to the AMT Problem - 12/14/2006
- Who Pays the Individual AMT: State by State Estimates - 03/22/2006
- Senate and House Tax Reconciliation Bills Compared - 12/06/2005
- AMT Repeal Would Heavily Favor the Wealthy - 05/24/2005
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Health Care:
News
- Mitch McConnell Misleads on Health Care Mandate - 07/03/2012
- Supreme Court Says Fee for Not Buying Health Insurance Is a "Tax." Don't Worry. Hardly Anyone Will Have to Pay It. - 06/29/2012
- Super Bowl Ad about Taxes from Corporate Astroturf Group - 02/11/2011
- No Regrets, Madam Speaker - 11/04/2010
- For more articles on Health Care from the Tax Justice Digest click here.
Reports
- Who's Complaining about Health Care Reform? (And What Do They Pay in Taxes?) - 04/09/2010
- Medicare Tax Reform in Health "Corrections" Bill Unlikely to Have Any Noticeable Impact on Small Businesses and Jobs - 03/23/2010
- President's Medicare Tax Reform Would Affect about 2% of Taxpayers and End the Exemption for Wealthy Investors - 03/05/2010
- Would the Senate Democrats' Proposed Excise Tax on "High-Cost" Employer-Paid Health Insurance Benefits Be Progressive? - 12/11/2009
- Health Care Reform Financing Options: The Millionaires' Surcharge in the House-Passed Health Care Reform Bill - 11/13/2009
- Health Care Financing Options: Review and Comparison of Six Progressive Options to Finance Health Care Reform - 09/24/2009
- Health Care Reform Financing Options: Extend the Medicare Tax to Investment Income - 09/21/2009
- The Bush Tax Cuts Cost Two and a Half Times as Much as the House Democrats' Health Care Proposal - 09/08/2009
- Fact Sheet: House Surcharge Proposal Unlikely to Have Noticeable Impact on Small Businesses - 07/21/2009
- Health Care Reform Financing Options: House Proposal to Apply a Graduated Surcharge to Incomes Over $350,000 - 07/15/2009
- Health Care Reform Financing Options: Make the Medicare Tax a More Progressive Tax that Wealthy Investors Pay Just Like Everyone Else - 07/07/2009
- Health Care Reform Financing Options: President Obama's Proposal to Limit Itemized Deductions for High-Income Families - 07/07/2009
- President Obama's Revenue Proposals and Other Progressive Revenue Options - 06/03/2009
- Progressive Revenue Options to Fund Health Care Reform - 05/21/2009
- President Obama's Proposals to Raise Revenue - 05/15/2009
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Housing:
News
- New CTJ Report on the Unemployment Bill: Must Everything Involve Tax Cuts? - 11/02/2009
- The National Association of Realtors Has Taken Plenty of Regressive Positions on Taxes -- But Do They Oppose Extending the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich? - 10/02/2009
- Non-Stimulative Tax Cuts: A Big One Is Kept in the Final Package, But Many Others Were Significantly Scaled Back - 02/13/2009
- CTJ Ranks the Six Worst Tax Cuts in the Senate Stimulus Bill - 02/10/2009
- For more articles on Housing from the Tax Justice Digest click here.
Reports
- The Senate Unemployment Insurance Bill: Must Everything Involve Tax Cuts? - 11/02/2009
- The Six Worst Tax Cuts in the Senate Stimulus Bill - 02/10/2009
- The Senate's Foreclosure Prevention Act Unfairly Rewards Big Business Over Middle-Class Americans - 04/07/2008
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Income and Work Supports:
News
- Three Things Romney Forgot to Say About Who Pays Taxes - 09/18/2012
- Taxes, Poverty and Political Debates - 09/12/2012
- HOUSE GOP LEADER CALLS FOR TAX INCREASES ON LOWER-INCOME AMERICANS - 04/20/2012
- Amid Grim Census Data on Poverty, Congress Should Reject Calls to Raise Taxes on Low-Income Families - 09/14/2011
- For more articles on Income and Work Supports from the Tax Justice Digest click here.
Reports
- Who Pays Taxes in America? - 04/04/2012
- Amid Grim Census Data on Poverty, Congress Should Reject Calls to Raise Taxes on Low-Income Families - 09/13/2011
- Compromise Tax Cut Plan Tilts Heavily in Favor of the Well-Off - 12/07/2010
- Refundable Credits Expanded in the Economic Recovery Act - 10/19/2010
- Republican Approach to Extending the Bush Tax Cuts Would Result in Huge Break for Richest 1% and Higher Taxes for Middle Class, Compared to Obama's Approach - 09/17/2010
- The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010 (a.k.a. the "Extenders" Bill) Would Boost the Economy and Improve Tax Fairness - 05/20/2010
- All Americans Pay Taxes - 04/15/2010
- President Obama Cut Taxes for 98 Percent of Working Americans in 2009 - 04/13/2010
- Tax Provisions in Recent Jobs Legislation - 03/18/2010
- CTJ's Legislative Agenda for 2010 - 02/25/2010
- President Obama's FY2011 Budget: Federal Government Should Collect at Least as Much Revenue as Obama Proposes - 02/10/2010
- The Senate Unemployment Insurance Bill: Must Everything Involve Tax Cuts? - 11/02/2009
- Impact of Selected Tax Cuts in Final Economic Stimulus Bill, State-by-State - 02/13/2009
- How Would the Stimulus Proposals Impact Families with Children in Your State? [State Fact Sheets] - 02/11/2009
- State-by-State Comparison of Child Tax Credit Plans in House and Senate Stimulus Bills - 02/10/2009
- Claims that Stimulus Tax Cuts Go to "People Who Don't Pay Taxes" Are Intentionally Misleading - 01/29/2009
- Child Credit Phase-In Rules Hit Hurricane Victims Hardest - 11/08/2005
- House GOP Child Credit Bill Gives Far More to the Well Off Than to Moderate-Income Families - 06/13/2003
- One in Six Families with Children Would Gain from Increasing Child Credit Refund Percentage - 06/03/2003
- Bush Tax Plan's Child Credit Boost Leaves Behind One in Four of America's Children - 05/29/2003
- Distributional Analysis of House GOP and Democratic Marriage Penalty Bills - 02/11/2000
- Fixing the "Marriage Penalty" Problem - 02/01/1999
- What Marriage Penalty? Phony Figures in the Tax Debate - 06/12/1998
- The Tax on Marriage: We Can Get Rid of It Without Giveaways to the Rich - 06/10/1998
- The "Tax on Marriage" Should we get rid of it, and, if so, how? - 01/15/1998
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Retirement:
News
- President Obama Proposes Payroll Tax Holiday Nearly Equal in Size to Bush Income Tax Cuts for 2012 - 09/09/2011
- The Second Coming of Pete Peterson - 01/15/2010
- The Coming War Over the Federal Budget - 02/20/2009
- CTJ Report: Only 1% of Taxpayers Would Be Affected by Obama's Proposal to Increase the Social Security Payroll Tax for the Rich - 07/11/2008
- For more articles on Retirement from the Tax Justice Digest click here.
Reports
- Comparing a Payroll Tax Holiday to Other Tax Breaks: More Effective than Bush Tax Cuts, Less Effective than Making Work Pay Credit - 09/06/2011
- Only 1% of Taxpayers Would Be Affected By Obama's Proposal to Increase the Social Security Payroll Tax for the Rich - 07/07/2008
- House Budget Plan Deals with Tax Policy in a More Responsible Way than the Senate Version - 03/20/2008
- An Analysis of Eliminating the Cap on Earnings Subject to the Social Security Tax & Related Issues - 11/30/2006
- How Big is the Deficit-- Really? - 10/20/2006
- Congress Poised to Extend IRA "Savings Incentives" for Wealthy - 08/01/2006
- Senate Votes Social Security Boost for Best-Off: State By State Data - 03/25/2005
- Bush Dividend Tax Cut Worthless to Most Seniors - 03/13/2003
- The False Messiah; Pete Peterson's Revelations Are Not Gospel - 06/23/1994
