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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- Top economists on whether we should tax capital income less than labor income
- Corporate Tax Reform: Is broadening the base and lowering the rate always a good idea?
- Apple, Avoidance, and Corporate Tax Incidence
- Valuing The Vote: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Great Questions from Paul Krugman
- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
- Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
- It Takes a Regime Shift: Recent Developments in Japan through the Lens of the Great Depression
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Tag Archives: Fiscal Cliff
Shrinking Revenue Offers
Jared Bernstein has a nice, but depressing chart on various revenue offers between Obama and Boehner.
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Tagged Budget, Fiscal Cliff, Government Spending, Obama, Republicans, Revenues, Sequester, Taxes
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White House’s 30 Second Case for the American Taxpayer Relief Act
Brian Deese makes the case for the 2012 Revenue Deal
Are House Republicans Actually Behaving Rationally?
Nate Silver has a fascinating post on this question. Here’s his answer: Individual members of Congress are responding fairly rationally to their incentives. Most members of the House now come from hyperpartisan districts where they face essentially no threat of losing their … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, Nate Silver, Polarization, Redistricting, Republicans
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Broad-Based Tax Increases Are Rare
Zach Goldfarb has a story today that points out how rare broad-based tax increases are. I posted earlier about the history of individual income tax changes at the federal level – here is a similar chart that I made that includes payroll … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, Middle Class, Payroll tax, Tax Reform, Taxes, Washington Post, Zach Goldfarb
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Macroadvisers on the Effects of the Fiscal Cliff
We’re often asked how much of a drag on growth is associated with each of the provisions of current law that usually are described as comprising the fiscal cliff. The table below presents such results for the four quarters of … Continue reading
More Progressive Ways to Reduce Social Security Spending than Chained CPI
Dylan Matthews has a great post discussing more progressive cuts to social security than Chained CPI. He includes the option of altering the Preliminary Issuance Amount, which is determined by a benefit schedule that maps your “average wages” into a personalized … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, Dylan Matthews, Fiscal Cliff, PIA, seniors, social security
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Raising Another Trillion in Revenues
Larry Summers argues it’s plausible that we can raise another $1 trillion+ over the next ten years – here’s how: The failure to tax capital gains at the point of death costs the federal government about $50bn a year. Since … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, inequality, larry summers, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Repatriation Holidays
Many companies have been pushing for a repatriation holiday and recent reports have highlighted how much cash is held overseas. A little more than half the companies in the Fortune 500 have at least $1.6 trillion in untaxed profits parked offshore, … Continue reading
The Pace of the Recovery: Output and Employment Growth Since 1985
Laura Tyson has a piece today on the slow pace of the recovery: Since 2010, annual growth of gross domestic product has averaged about 2.1 percent. This is less than half the average pace of recoveries from previous recessions in … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, Growth, jobless recovery, Jobs, Laura Tyson, Stimulus
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Fiscal Cliff Policy Links
Credit: Washington Post Since Corporate Taxes are on the table and extended unemployment insurance is set to expire, here are some relevant links: Corporate Taxes: Is broadening the base to lower the rate a good idea? A Modern Corporate Tax … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, Corporate Tax, Fiscal Cliff, Jesse Rothstein, Raj Chetty, Tax Reform, unemployment insurance
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