Basic Needs (Education, Health, Housing, Income and Retirement)
Education:
News
- 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
- House Democrats' Tax Proposal Makes Some Improvements on Obama Plan While Retaining Some Ill-Advised Tax Cuts for Business - 01/16/2009
- For more articles on Education from the Tax Justice Digest click here.
Reports
- President Obama's FY2011 Budget: Federal Government Should Collect at Least as Much Revenue as Obama Proposes - 02/10/2010
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Health Care:
News
- Senate Continues Battle Over Bill on Jobs, "Extenders," and Loophole-Closers - 06/11/2010
- AND SO IT BEGINS: Big Business Takes Aim at Parts of Health Care Reform - 04/02/2010
- HEALTH CARE VICTORY - 03/26/2010
- How Health Care Was Reformed (and Financed Partly with a Progressive Tax) - 03/26/2010
- 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
- Taxing Health Insurance Premiums: The Latest Wrinkle - 1994
- Notes on Health Care Reform Financing & Related Issues - 1994
- Statement of Robert S. McIntyre Regarding the Tax Treatment of Health Care Organizations Before the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures House Committee on Ways and Means - 12/14/1993
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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 (Two-page summary) - 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
- Minority of Senators Block Jobs and "Tax Extenders" Bill -- No Resolution in Sight - 06/25/2010
- Senate Continues Battle Over Bill on Jobs, "Extenders," and Loophole-Closers - 06/11/2010
- CALL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: Urge Them to Pass the Jobs and Extenders Bill (H.R. 4213) - 05/21/2010
- New from CTJ: Republican Approach to Extending the Bush Tax Cuts Would Result in $54,600 Break for Richest 1% and Higher Taxes for Middle Class, Compared to Obama's Approach - 04/22/2010
- For more articles on Income and Work Supports from the Tax Justice Digest click here.
Reports
- 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
- 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 - 04/22/2010
- 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
- Tax Justice Digest: Final Economic Stimulus Bill Has Progressive Tax Credits and Significantly Scaled Back Regressive Tax Cuts - 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 [Robert S. McIntyre & Michael J. McIntyre, Valparaiso University Law Review][This article outlines a straightforward solution to the marraige penalty that neither loses revenue nor changes the distribution of federal income taxes] - 02/01/1999
- The Tax on Marriage: We Can Get Rid of It Without Giveaways to the Rich. [This article expands on the insights of the Slate article and estimates the incidence of a revenue-neutral alternative plan] - 07/01/1998
- What Marriage Penalty? Phony Figures in the Tax Debate [Robert S. McIntyre, Slate] [This article provides a brief summary of the marriage penalty issue] - 06/12/1998
- The "Tax on Marriage"; Should We Get Rid of It, and, If So, How? [Michael J. McIntyre & Robert S. McIntyre, May 1980 People & Taxes article updated January 1998] - 01/15/1998
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Retirement:
News
- 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
- A House-Passed Law Would Stop Former Subsidiary of Halliburton from Using Offshore Scheme to Avoid Social Security and Medicare Taxes; Now Senate Must Act - 05/16/2008
- For more articles on Retirement from the Tax Justice Digest click here.
Reports
- Only 1% of Taxpayers Would Be Affected By Obama's Proposal to Increase the Social Security Payroll Tax for the Rich - 07/072008
- 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
- UPDATED: 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 [Robert S. McIntyre, The American Prospect] - 06/23/1994
- Social Insecurity [Robert S. McIntyre, The New Republic] - 11/22/1993
