TaxBytes

The media often portray “gridlock” and political disagreement as driven by partisan politics, as if politics is simply about “my team” versus “your team.

Now that we’re finally beginning to talk about tax reform to stimulate economic growth, the “flat tax vs. sales tax” debate has resurfaced.

Competition among the Republican Presidential candidates has resurrected talk of tax reform.

This week yet another corporate leader explained clearly and precisely how the U.

President Obama has appointed Princeton University economics professor Alan Krueger to replace the departing Austan Goolsbee as head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors.

Social Security and Medicare are going broke, primarily because of the way the system is structured.

The debate over the debt ceiling extension dominates the news cycle and political discussions.

Backed into a corner by Republican demands for severe spending restraints as a condition for an extension of the debt ceiling, President Obama has attached a few conditions of his own, among which are eliminating some corporate tax breaks for corporate jets, tax breaks for oil companies, and the like.

One of the many problems with our tax system in the United States is that we are schizophrenic on the question of whether or not taxes affect decision-making.

During one of the 1980 presidential debates with incumbent President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan famously asked the American people whether they were better off than they were four years earlier.