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• The Debate over Tax Cuts: It's Not Just About the Rich -- 07/19/2012
• Amid Grim Census Data on Poverty, Congress Should Reject Calls to Raise Taxes on Low-Income Families -- 09/13/2011
• Comparing a Payroll Tax Holiday to Other Tax Breaks: More Effective than Bush Tax Cuts, Less Effective than Making Work Pay Credit -- 09/06/2011
• President's Medicare Tax Reform Would Affect about 2% of Taxpayers and End the Exemption for Wealthy Investors -- 03/05/2010
• Would the Senate Democrats' Proposed Excise Tax on "High-Cost" Employer-Paid Health Insurance Benefits Be Progressive? -- 12/11/2009
• Health Care Reform Financing Options: The Millionaires' Surcharge in the House-Passed Health Care Reform Bill -- 11/13/2009
• The Senate Unemployment Insurance Bill: Must Everything Involve Tax Cuts? -- 11/02/2009
• Health Care Financing Options: Review and Comparison of Six Progressive Options to Finance Health Care Reform -- 09/24/2009
• Health Care Reform Financing Options: Extend the Medicare Tax to Investment Income -- 09/21/2009
• The Bush Tax Cuts Cost Two and a Half Times as Much as the House Democrats' Health Care Proposal -- 09/08/2009
• Fact Sheet: House Surcharge Proposal Unlikely to Have Noticeable Impact on Small Businesses -- 07/21/2009
• Health Care Reform Financing Options: House Proposal to Apply a Graduated Surcharge to Incomes Over $350,000 -- 07/15/2009
• Health Care Reform Financing Options: Make the Medicare Tax a More Progressive Tax that Wealthy Investors Pay Just Like Everyone Else -- 07/07/2009
• Health Care Reform Financing Options: President Obama's Proposal to Limit Itemized Deductions for High-Income Families -- 07/07/2009
• President Obama's Revenue Proposals and Other Progressive Revenue Options -- 06/03/2009
• Progressive Revenue Options to Fund Health Care Reform -- 05/21/2009
• President Obama's Proposals to Raise Revenue -- 05/15/2009
• Impact of Selected Tax Cuts in Final Economic Stimulus Bill, State-by-State -- 02/13/2009
• How Would the Stimulus Proposals Impact Families with Children in Your State? [State Fact Sheets] -- 02/11/2009
• State-by-State Comparison of Child Tax Credit Plans in House and Senate Stimulus Bills -- 02/10/2009
• The Six Worst Tax Cuts in the Senate Stimulus Bill -- 02/10/2009
• Only 1% of Taxpayers Would Be Affected By Obama's Proposal to Increase the Social Security Payroll Tax for the Rich -- 07/07/2008
• The Senate's Foreclosure Prevention Act Unfairly Rewards Big Business Over Middle-Class Americans -- 04/07/2008
• House Budget Plan Deals with Tax Policy in a More Responsible Way than the Senate Version -- 03/20/2008
• An Analysis of Eliminating the Cap on Earnings Subject to the Social Security Tax & Related Issues -- 11/30/2006
• How Big is the Deficit-- Really? -- 10/20/2006
• Congress Poised to Extend IRA "Savings Incentives" for Wealthy -- 08/01/2006
• Senate Votes Social Security Boost for Best-Off: State By State Data -- 03/25/2005
• Bush Dividend Tax Cut Worthless to Most Seniors -- 03/13/2003
• Fixing the "Marriage Penalty" Problem -- 02/01/1999
• What Marriage Penalty? Phony Figures in the Tax Debate -- 06/12/1998
• The Tax on Marriage: We Can Get Rid of It Without Giveaways to the Rich -- 06/10/1998
• The False Messiah; Pete Peterson's Revelations Are Not Gospel -- 06/23/1994