C. Eugene Steuerle
Tax Policy Center
Washington, DC, United States
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Why Aren’t Kids A Higher Priority For Congress?
During the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, Congress substantially increased benefits for children, including big boosts in the Child Tax Credit... → Read More
Charitable Giving Appears To Have Fallen In 2018, Despite Treasury Claims
On March 3, the Treasury Department put out a press release saying that 2018’s charitable giving “appeared largely unchanged from previous years,” despite a “concern... → Read More
What Do The Sanders-Biden Fights Over Protecting Social Security Mean?
Social Security is back in the headlines. Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders attacked his rival for the nomination, former Vice-President Joe Biden , for his... → Read More
Paul Volcker Taught Us How Tax And Monetary Policy Can Work Together To Enhance Growth
The recent passing of former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker serves as an important reminder of his critical role in ending stagflation in the late... → Read More
Government Trust Funds Are Selling America Short
Federal lawmakers have found many ways to shift the responsibility for today’s spending to tomorrow’s taxpayers. But among the most important is their habit of... → Read More
How Norms and Laws Might Further Limit Executive Branch Influence Over Investigations
Recent stories in the news raise important questions about the ability of government to impose constraints on abusive government investigations. I’m not here to judge... → Read More
Congress is supposed to decide how the U.S. spends money. Soon, it won’t be able to.
Our ‘fiscal democracy’ is dwindling. → Read More
How Much State Spending Is On Autopilot?
In his 2005 State of the State address, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sounded like he was being chased by the new Terminator T1000 : It... → Read More
Alice Rivlin: The George Washington Of The Congressional Budget Office
On June 21, the family and friends of Alice Rivlin will join with much of Washington’s public policy community to celebrate her life and extraordinary... → Read More
Has Society Gotten Older or Younger?
Two powerful demographic processes—the falling birth rate and increasing life expectancy—are reshaping the US population. Longer life expectancy leads to a healthier population, greater capacity to work, and a more active lifestyle, but it also raises the share of the population over age 65—a traditional measure of population aging. This measure overstates aging problems and leads policymakers… → Read More
How Government Tax And Transfer Policy Promotes Wealth Inequality
Federal tax and spending policies are worsening the problem of economic inequality. But the tax breaks that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy are only part of... → Read More
Kids' Share 2018: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children through 2017 and Future Projections
Public spending on children aims to support their healthy development, helping them fulfill their human potential. As such, federal spending on children is an investment in the nation’s future. To inform policymakers, children’s advocates, and the general public about how public funds are spent on children, this 12th edition of the annual Kids’ Share report provides an updated analysis of… → Read More
Helping Workers during Recessions
When a recession hits, the federal government usually responds with tax cuts and additional financial assistance, because automatic policies built into the law often prove inadequate and elected officials need and want to respond to the crisis. This brief compares the distributional and stimulus impacts of five fiscal policies aimed specifically at workers: Unemployment → Read More
Where Is the Budget Headed One Year into the Trump Administration?
After one year of the Trump administration, we assess the fiscal path implied by budget policies that the president and Congress have so far put in place. Using a new framework that holds lawmakers accountable for reforms taken and not taken, we project that over the coming decade, nearly all growth in spending will go toward higher health, Social Security, and interest costs—with little left… → Read More
Charities Have Plenty of Opportunity to Advance Giving Despite Tax Law Losses
By substantially cutting the number of taxpayers who will receive a charitable deduction, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) has created an opportunity for... → Read More
The TCJA Will Create More Complexity For Taxpayers Than It Claims
Among the most complex provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is its special tax deduction for income earned by pass-through businesses. In... → Read More
How Congress Violates Its Own Goals for Tax Reform
Bismarck is credited with the warning: “If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.” It is never truer than... → Read More
Why Tax Reform Flounders: The Case Of Doubling The Standard Deduction
Do you want to know why tax reform is so hard ? Consider one seemingly simple idea that has been floated by President Trump and... → Read More
Kids Share 2017: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children through 2016 and Future Projections
Public spending on children by federal, state, and local governments is an investment in the nation’s future because it supports children’s healthy development, helping them fulfill their potential. To help interested stakeholders assess the government’s investment in children, this 11th edition of the annual Kids’ Share report provides an updated analysis of federal expenditures on children… → Read More
Tax reform should promote saving among households with less wealth
Tax reform is an opportunity to address wealth inequality, which has grown from both gains at the top and declines at the bottom. → Read More