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Exploding, Once Again, the “Non-Payer” Tax Myth
Have you heard the one about how nearly half of Americans don’t pay taxes? Nonsense, as the recent Congressional Budget Office report on income inequality reminds us. As we have explained, in a...
View ArticleNew Poverty Measure Shows Government’s Anti-Poverty Impact
[This commentary, on the experimental measure of poverty that the Census Bureau released this week, first appeared in Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity.] The Census Bureau’s release of the...
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Without the Safety Net, More Than a Quarter of Americans Would Have Been Poor...
I pointed out earlier this week that six recession-fighting initiatives enacted in 2009 and 2010 kept nearly 7 million people out of poverty in 2010 — under an alternative measure of poverty that...
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Some States Raising Taxes on Working-Poor Families
As I explained yesterday, states’ progress in improving the tax treatment of low-income families stalled in 2010, and a few states — Michigan, New Jersey, and Wisconsin — have acted over the past...
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Romney Tax Plan: Cuts Taxes for the Rich, Hurts the Poor, Raises Deficits
The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC) has just released an analysis of Mitt Romney’s tax plan. The chart below, using TPC figures, shows how the plan would affect people in different income...
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Romney’s Wrong: Federal Low-Income Program Dollars Go Overwhelmingly to...
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has endorsed a proposal to eliminate major federal assistance programs for low-income Americans and turn them over to the states, often with deep funding cuts. But...
View ArticleMore States Propose Reverse-Robin-Hood Tax Policy
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and a legislatively appointed task force in Oklahoma have proposed raising taxes on working-poor families with children and impoverished seniors in order to help finance...
View ArticleHappy EITC Day!
Today’s the sixth annual Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Awareness Day, an event organized by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and its partners to raise public awareness of the EITC. Designed to...
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Debunking the “Entitlement Society” Myth
Contrary to claims that government benefit programs are creating a dependent class of Americans who are losing the desire to work and would rather collect government benefits than find a job, a major...
View ArticleProtecting Low-Income Families from Regressive Tax Increases
A smart proposal in Maryland would expand the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to help offset the impact on low-income families of several proposed tax increases. The proposed increases, in the...
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