The centrist Democrats at the Hamilton Project have a new paper on tax reform  in which they lay out six guiding principles:

1. Fiscal responsibility requires addressing both taxes and spending.
2. Rising inequality strengthens the case for progressivity.
3. The tax system should collect the…

If anyone needs help in accumulating a nest egg, it’s a young, poor single parent. But  the government penalizes young, low-income families who try to save, says a new report by Laurence Kotlikoff for the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Kotlikoff, a…

The IRS‘ electronic-filing program is one of my biggest tax-season pet peeves. Basically what it does is let us fulfill a basic duty  of citizenship, using the technology of the day. It fills the same function that paper forms and…

The Show-Me Institute issued a provocative study this morning that calls for eliminating Missouri’s income tax by 2020. Its proposal wouldn’t raise any other taxes, but it would cap state spending growth. State spending would be allowed to grow at the…