The Goodman Institute is doing work not done by any other organization – especially in the areas of tax, health care and entitlement policy. Without our work the nation might not have obtained tax reform. Now we need to defend it. The Trump administration used many of our ideas to deregulate the health care system – often by executive order. And we have developed a unique set of policy ideas for three groups of people who are critical in elections: seniors, women and people with pre-existing conditions.
GOP Tax Reform is Worth $39,000 to Georgia Families
Because of lower taxes and higher wages, the average Georgia household will enjoy more than $39,000 in economic benefits over their lifetime thanks to the 2017 federal tax cuts. That’s the conclusion of a Goodman Institute study by Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff. An earlier study by Kotlikoff and economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, also partly funded by the Goodman Institute, estimated the gain at $22,676 because of personal income tax cuts. The new study adds the impact of lower corporate taxes. More
What Covid-19 has Revealed about Our Safety Net Institutions
The COVID-19 pandemic. The Great Recession. The dot-com bust. The early ’90s recession. Every decade or so a disaster hits the United States and reminds us that many American families live one calamity away from financial ruin.
Biden tax plan hurts workers
One of the intellectual architects of the 2017 tax cut legislation says the Joe Biden proposal to reimpose higher tax rates will be harmful to the economy and to working families. Earlier studies by Boston University professor Lawrence Kotlikoff and his colleagues found that “the United states had one for the highest corporate tax rates in the world.” As a result of lowering the top corporate rate from 35% to 21%, the US became competitive and more than $1 trillion has been repatriated by US firms. In a new study, Kotlikoff finds that the Biden proposal to undo half the cut in the corporate income tax rate will lower wages and cost jobs. MORE
What I Bet You Don’t Know About Health Savings Accounts
Health Savings Account plans are the fastest growing product in the health insurance marketplace. At … Read More
Our Priorities
The Goodman Institute is doing work not done by any other organization – especially in … Read More
Saving and Gramm in the Wall Street Journal: The Fed’s Obama-Era Hangover
The Federal Reserve System is paying banks not to lend money under an Obama … Read More
The Year Ahead
A high priority will be to assess the effects of tax reform and to communicate … Read More
Goodman: Obamacare Alternatives Soar
This article was first published by Forbes on January 30, 2019 (HERE). According to Gallup, … Read More
Open Letter To The Republican Party
John C. Goodman, CONTRIBUTOR December 10th, 2018 A version of this article first … Read More