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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Missouri Tax Amendment Likely to Seriously Harm Services, Shift Taxes Onto Worki...

In early August, Missouri voters will decide one of the most consequential state tax policy questions in recent memory: whether to eliminate their state’s personal income tax.

Michigan Democratic Party: Michigan Democrats Slam GOP Billionaire Bailout Budget On One-Year Anniversary of OBBBA’s Pas...

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found the OBBBA “will increase taxes for most Americans, significantly expand income inequality, and add trillions to the national deb...

How To Build A Better City Budget

As rising costs strain our community and household budgets, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s proposed taxes attempted to patch gaping holes with meager solutions.

Don’t Blame the Messenger—the CBO—for Our Current Fiscal Problems

Publicly held debt is projected to rise to a new record high of 106 percent of GDP within the next four years and continue to rise to 120 percent by 2036 and 175 percent by 2056.

Five priorities for this year’s budget plan

Just over two weeks ago, House and Senate leaders announced they had a “framework” for a budget deal for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Lawmakers have not passed a comprehensive...

The Arizona Center for Economic Progress: As America250 Approaches, Arizona’s Story Must Include All of Us

Under H.R. 1, the federal tax package passed last year, the richest 1% of Arizonans are set to receive an average tax cut of nearly $80,000, according to the Institute on Taxation...

D.C. Budget Postpones Hard Choices

Deficit, Debt w/o the OBBBA

As Treasury yields jump, changes in fiscal policy come into scrutiny. By comparing the Feb 2026 to January 2025 CBO baselines, and isolating changes due to legislation, one can ide...

California Budget and Policy Center: Should Voters Approve Prop. 3? How Top Tax Rates Have Helped Californians

Proposition 3 will appear on the November 2026 statewide ballot, asking California voters whether to make permanent the higher-income tax rates on the state’s highest earners. 

Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy: How Federal and State Tax Cuts Shift Costs onto Idaho Families and Communities

Since 2018, however, Idaho households have received $4.5 billion in state and federal income tax cuts—an amount that exceeds current state investments in health and education combi...

The Bell Policy Center: Colorado Ballot Guide 2026

According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, immigrants without documentation contributed $436.5 million in state and local taxes in Colorado in 2022.

A Revenue Reforecast Is Not a Blank Check

by Derrick Max To be clear, there is no evidence that Virginia’s professional forecasters manipulated the numbers. The Commonwealth has earned a well-deserved reputation for respon...

The Abandoned Goal of Revenue Neutrality

Revenue-neutral proposals, like many things in politics, have become a relic of the past.

The Impact of Proposed New Tax Credit Restrictions for Immigrant Filers: An Analysis of State EITCs

Immigrants and their families in as many as 30 states are at risk of seeing their state tax credits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) reduced u...

Budget Reconciliation Can Advance an American Opportunity Agenda

Congress must use budget reconciliation to begin adopting an American Opportunity Agenda by the fourth of July. Americans cannot wait for action by their elected officials to addre...

What’s missing from CBO scoring in health?

That is the topic of a JAMA Health Forum article by my USC colleagues Dana Goldman and Erin Trish. In it, the note that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) does good work, but th...

CBS News: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is 1 year old. Here are the winners and losers.

"The top 1%, in fact, are in line to get $1 trillion in tax cuts from the law over a decade," Jon Whiten, deputy director of the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Poli...

Uncapping the Payroll Tax Would Be the Largest Tax Increase in Decades—and Still Wouldn’t Save Social Security

It is good to see senators talking about the Social Security crisis that is rapidly unfolding. But any serious proposal has to grapple with the trade-offs of different reforms and...

Social Security benefits and costs are perfectly reasonable — no case exists for massive cuts

It might be nice to reduce the large share of benefits going to high earners who retire later and live long lives.

Quick take: New York state budget winners and losers

Andrew Rein of the Citizens Budget Commission joined Capital Tonight.

The Impact of Proposed New Tax Credit Restrictions for Immigrant Filers: An Analysis of the DACA Recipient Population

We find that 337,000 people in households with at least one DACA recipient will suffer financial harm, and that nearly two-thirds (66 percent) of the impacted individuals are U.S....

J. Michael Collins and Tyler Q. Welch: Storm clouds over Social Security solvency hovering closer

Solvency can be achieved through a balanced combination of revenue increases and structural adjustments, such as delays in eligibility to older ages and lower rates of annual cost...

2026 Sessions in Review: States Fund Tax Credits by Preserving, Raising Revenue

In a year of cautious uncertainty around current and ongoing revenues, many state lawmakers strengthened their tax credits for families and children.

The affordability crisis in one page

The “affordability crisis” is arguably shaping up to be the top issue for this election season. One can barely go five minutes on social media or television without hearing a polit...