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Eduardo Porter suggests that raising new tax revenue by cutting loopholes opens up a semantic loophole: Though the offer to raise money b...

Henry Aaron of Brookings, one of the nation's top healthcare economists, has a rather odd perspective on the current brewing battle ov...

Here we go again: Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Georgia, one of the Quixotes of the Senate Gang of Six, is writhing out of Grover Norquist'...

Grover Norquist continues to insist loudly that Republicans violate his "no new taxes ever" pledge when they vote to close out any...

I have been intrigued in the past to note that some conservatives characterize reductions in "tax expenditures" -- targeted tax b...

Tom Coburn, who recently withdrew from the Senate Gang of Six that was purporting to negotiate a comprehensive tax reform/deficit reduction ...

You have to respect a conservative Republican who tells his colleagues that the only way they're going to get a deficit reduction deal i...

There is a good deal of confusion and obfuscation on both sides of the debate over tax reform  -- at least, over the kind of centrist tax re...

On the theory that presidential advocacy on a given issue polarizes the parties on that issue, I have more than once suggested half-serious...

As David Brooks noted in the midst of the 2008 campaign, Obama has put himself in a box on taxes. Here's David Plouffe on Meet the Pres...

In my last post , I suggested that Paul Ryan's extremist, intellectually dishonest long-range budget plan is a sideshow -- that if there...

For those who believe that Obama has failed a s test of courage by not rolling out a detailed tax reform/deficit reduction plan early this y...

A dozen or more years ago, I wrote a press release announcing the opening in Manhattan of the Greek seafood restaurant Milos Estiatorio.  Th...

Grover Norquist is insisting on his bond with the trio of conservative Senators that have begun negotiations on a comprehensive tax/budget r...

No question, Ramesh Ponnuru is far more attuned than I will ever be to linguistic code of true-blue GOP supply siders. So perhaps I should a...

Here is the best evidence yet that Obama's low-profile approach to beginning the long process of budget/tax reform is on target.  Never ...