Posts Tagged ‘tax increases’

Economist Edward Lazear Says Taxation Won’t Cut It


Monday March 28th, 2011   •   Posted by Emily Skarbek at 10:49am PDT   •   1 Comment

Edward P. Lazear (former Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisors; Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics, Stanford University; Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution) proposes significant spending cuts, no tax increases, and most importantly�adoption of rule-based constraints on future government spending. What do you think�is limiting growth in government…
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Fixing the Budget Deficit Without Raising Taxes


Monday November 15th, 2010   •   Posted by Emily Skarbek at 11:01am PST   •   3 Comments

The New York Times has a wonderful tool for understanding how the recommendations of the presidential deficit commission could work to close the estimated annual budget shortfalls in the future. You simply go through and select spending cuts and tax increases until the budget shortfall is corrected for both in the present and future….
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