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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Can Make Taxes Simpler This Year]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2013/02/21/congress-may-not-rewrite-the-tax-code-in-2013-but-it-could-make-it-simpler/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As regular readers of Tax Vox know, I don't believe there is much chance President Obama and Congress will agree on individual broad-based tax reform in 2013. Without a deal on how much this new tax system should raise, talking about a big rewrite is futile. However, Obama and Congress...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Plan to Avoid the Sequester]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2013/02/19/bowles-simpson-ii-a-new-plan-to-avoid-the-sequester/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With 10 days to go until the dreaded sequester"&rdquo;the automatic across-the-board spending cuts that most lawmakers profess to hate"&rdquo;the Washington drama machine is starting to get in gear. Today, President Obama stood in front a group of uniformed first responders and warned...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama Pull Off Corporate Tax Reform?]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2013/02/12/corporate-tax-reform-is-on-obamas-agenda-but-can-he-pull-it-off/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In what will probably be the usual endless laundry list of State of the Union promises, President Obama is likely to include tax reform, by which he means a rewrite of the corporate revenue code. The White House seems ready to take a run at lowering corporate rates and scaling back...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Payroll Tax Cuts Boost the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2013/01/29/payroll-tax-cuts-may-boost-the-economy-more-than-you-think/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just as Congress allowed the 2011-12 payroll tax cut to expire, new research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that such tax breaks may significantly boost consumer spending. As a result, raising workers' take-home pay this way might play a bigger role than many thought in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cliff Deal Reduces Deficit Levels]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2013/01/03/what-the-fiscal-cliff-deal-really-means-for-taxes-and-spending/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone trying to sort out the fiscal cliff deal is getting hopelessly tangled in budget baselines.  Are taxes going up? Or are they going down?  There is an easier way: Forget the multiple baselines. Just look at what is happening to total spending and total revenues.My Tax Policy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Senate's Tax Bill Is Not the Right Answer]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/12/14/why-the-senates-tax-bill-is-no-way-out-of-the-fiscal-impasse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With fiscal cliff talks seemingly stalled (at least today) , there has been growing talk that House Republicans would call President Obama's bluff and simply pass the Middle-class Tax Cut Act approved by the Senate last summer. But for all the chatter, nobody has paid much attention to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What is Romney's Tax Plan?]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/10/29/what-is-mitt-romneys-tax-plan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the presidential campaign finally reaching a soggy finish, TaxVox is taking a final pre-election look at the tax policies of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Last week, we described Obama's tax policy platform. Here is a rundown of Mitt Romney's tax agenda.The elevator speech: Romney...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biggest Differences on Taxes]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/10/23/the-ten-biggest-differences-between-the-romney-and-obama-tax-plans/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes to taxes, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are almost perfect mirror images of one another. Here are ten ways their tax plans are different.The two men do have a few things in common. Both want to cut the corporate tax rate, though Romney would cut it more. Romney would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Joint Committee Said About Tax Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/10/15/what-the-joint-tax-committee-really-said-about-tax-reform/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday, congressional Democrats released the results of a new analysis of base-broadening, rate-cutting tax reform by the Joint Committee on Taxation. For reformers everywhere the results seemed exceedingly grim: By eliminating all deductions, Congress could reduce tax rates by only a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taxes Rise if Congress Goes Over the Cliff]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/10/01/if-congress-goes-over-the-fiscal-cliff-your-taxes-will-likely-go-up/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Congressional gridlock sends the U.S. government tumbling over the fiscal cliff later this year, Americans could face an average tax hike of almost $3,500 in 2013. Nearly 9 of every 10 households would pay higher taxes. Every income group would see their taxes rise by at least 3.5...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bowles-Simpson and Romney's Tax Plan]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/08/09/the-bowles-simpson-and-romney-tax-plans-have-almost-nothing-in-common/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the recent contretemps over Mitt Romney's tax plan, some Romney partisans have asserted that the Massachusetts governor's revenue plank mimics the tax elements of the deficit reduction plan proposed in 2010 by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the chairs of President Obama's deficit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dumb Olympic Tax Proposal]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/08/07/tax-free-olympic-boodle-is-gold-medal-stupidity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama and conservative GOP senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) agree: Olympic medals and the cash awards that go with them should be tax-exempt. This is the dumbest idea of the summer"&rdquo;and in our overheated campaign season, that's saying something.The idea seems to have originated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Math Doesn't Add Up for Romney's Plan]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/08/02/why-romneys-tax-agenda-doesnt-add-up-even-if-it-isnt-a-middle-class-tax-hike/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new paper by Brookings Institution scholars and Tax Policy Center colleagues Bill Gale, Adam Looney, and Samuel Brown is generating lots of media buzz. Even&#195;&#130; Barack Obama has has put his spin on it with&#195;&#130; a campaign ad&#195;&#130; that says&#195;&#130; if you are middle class, Mitt Romney wants to raise...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Tax Bills are a Political Exercise]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/07/25/what-the-dueling-senate-bills-on-expiring-tax-cuts-would-mean-for-taxpayers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As early as today, the Senate is likely to vote on the first of two competing efforts to temporarily extend tax cuts passed between 2001 and 2010. Neither the Democratic nor Republican measures will pass in the hyper-partisan Senate, but it is instructive to see how the measures stack...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Delay the Tax Cut Debate Until 2013?]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/06/07/should-we-delay-the-tax-cut-debate-until-early-2013/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past week or so, Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Glenn Hubbard have all made the same suggestion: Congress should extend all of the 2001/2003 tax cuts, due to expire at year's end, into early next year.It seems like an awful idea.I suspect they have different motivations for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Path Forward on Tax Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/05/22/a-path-forward-on-tax-reform/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Howard Gleckman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the National Tax Association's spring conference last week, former Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Holtz-Eakin laid out a path to tax reform in four simple, clear steps. Doug, who was also a top policy aide to the 2008 McCain for President campaign, was absolutely on point....]]></description>
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