Economic Recovery

News

• Starving the Census in the House GOP Budget: Penny Wise, And Dumb - 05/14/2012
• CTJ Responds to President's Jobs Council: What They Got Wrong about Corporate Taxes - 01/18/2012
• Holiday Tradition of Democrats' End-of-Year Surrender Foiled by House GOP - 12/22/2011
• Senator Kyl Supports Middle-Class Tax Cuts Only if Paired with Far Larger Tax Cut for the Rich - 12/07/2011
• For more articles on Economic Recovery from our Tax Justice Digest click here.

Reports

• What the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness Got Wrong about Corporate Taxes - 01/18/2012
• State-by-State Figures on Proposed 3.25 Percent Surcharge on Millionaires - 11/30/2011
• A More Effective Alternative to the Democrats' Payroll Tax Cut - 11/30/2011
• Fact Sheet: Four Ways to End Wall Street's Free Ride - 10/14/2011
• State-by-State Figures on Proposed Millionaire Surcharge - 10/06/2011
• Revenue Provisions in the President's Jobs Bill - 09/19/2011
• 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
• Refundable Credits Expanded in the Economic Recovery Act - 10/19/2010
• Closing the "John Edwards" Loophole Helps, Not Hurts, Small Business - 06/15/2010
• Senators Defend "Carried Interest" Loophole for Investment Fund Managers in the Name of the Poor, Minorities, Small Businesses and Cancer Patients! - 06/03/2010
• Key Provisions in H.R. 4213 Would Prevent Abuse of Foreign Tax Credits - 05/27/2010
• 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
• Extending Bush Tax Cuts for High-Income "Small Business" Owners Would Further Enrich the Wealthiest Taxpayers While Doing Nothing to Create Jobs - 05/13/2010
• President Obama Cut Taxes for 98 Percent of Working Americans in 2009 - 04/13/2010
• Tax Provisions in Recent Jobs Legislation - 03/18/2010
• 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
• How President Obama Won the Battle Over the Economic Recovery Act - 04/01/2009
• 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
• Poorest 60% of Taxpayers Get No Benefit from Reduction in Alternative Minimum Tax Included in Senate Stimulus Bill - 02/11/2009
• State-by-State Comparison of Child Tax Credit Plans in House and Senate Stimulus Bills - 02/10/2009
• The Six Worst Tax Cuts in the Senate Stimulus Bill - 02/10/2009
• Will Congress Make Itself a Doormat for Corporations that Avoid U.S. Taxes? Senate Should Reject "Repatriation" Proposal - 01/30/2009
• Claims that Stimulus Tax Cuts Go to "People Who Don't Pay Taxes" Are Intentionally Misleading - 01/29/2009
• Less Than a Quarter of House GOP's Tax Rate Reduction Proposal Would Go to the Poorest 60% of Taxpayers - 01/28/2009
• Tax Cuts in House Democratic Stimulus Plan Better Targeted Than Those of House GOP Plan - 01/26/2009
• Senator McConnell's Proposed "Middle-Class Stimulus" Is Neither Middle-Class Nor Stimulative - 01/09/2009
• Preliminary Analysis of Obama's Stimulus Tax Cuts: Could Be Worse, Could Be a Lot Better - 01/09/2009
• Taking a Holiday from Common Sense: Proposed National Sales Tax Holiday Offers Questionable Benefits to Consumers - 12/24/2008
• Auto Industry Bill Would Have Expanded the Infamous "Wells Fargo Ruling" and Provided a Bailout for Illegal Tax Schemes - 12/12/2008
• Principles for Progressive Taxation During a Recession - 12/04/2008
• New IRS Ruling on Bank Acquisitions Imposes Major Federal Corporate Tax Cuts - and Will Hurt States Too - 11/07/2008
• The Senate's Foreclosure Prevention Act Unfairly Rewards Big Business Over Middle-Class Americans - 04/07/2008
• Senate Democratic Stimulus Plan Offers Bigger Economic Boost and Larger Immediate Tax Cuts for Most than Competing Plans - 05/14/2003
• Senate GOP Tax Plan Targets Tax Aid to Best-off 10 Percent - 05/13/2003
• Most of House GOP Tax Plan Would Benefit Best-Off Five Percent - 05/06/2003
• Senate Democratic Tax Plan Analyzed - 01/30/2003
• Senate Republicans Up "Stimulus" Ante to $220 Billion Over 3 Years - 10/29/2001
• House GOP "Stimulus" Bill offers 16 Large, Low-Tax Corporations $7.4 Billion in Instant Tax Rebates - 10/16/2001
• $212 Billion House GOP "Stimulus" Tax Bill Would Almost Double Bush Tax Cuts Over Next Three Years - 10/15/2001
• Proposed Capital Gains Tax Cut Would Divert Stimulus Funds to the Very Wealthy - 10/12/2001
• Bush's Misguided "Stimulus" Plan - 10/09/2001