TaxBytes

$185 million! That’s how much AARP estimates it makes on average in royalties and revenues from the sale of health insurance products, according to an article in USA today.

Without any apparent sense of irony, many newspapers last week ran adjoining stories about human stem cells.

Here’s an idea that would save Americans billions of dollars.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon is close to achieving a legislative victory by reforming Mexico’s pay-as-you-go public pension system covering 2.

On March 22, the Senate defeated an amendment by Senator DeMint (R-SC) that would have made it possible under the Congressional Budget Resolution for the Congress to stop spending Social Security surpluses on other government programs and begin saving the Social Security surplus for future generations.

In considering whether to pass a bill, Congress relies on the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to estimate, or “score,” the effects the proposed legislation would have on tax revenues and government spending.

Question: When does not raising a tax increase state revenue? Answer: When other states are increasing that tax.

The New York Times recently released a poll showing that a majority wants the government to guarantee health insurance coverage to every American.

So you think Social Security is facing an unfunded liability crisis? Well, you’re right.

You know how when you squeeze a balloon it just pops out some place out? And then you squeeze it there and out pops a different bulge? That’s what’s happening in earmark reform.