Like other economic estimates of the Biden economic plan, the Kotlikoff analysis finds that the impact on 80 percent of the population is a small, positive number, averaging only a few hundred dollars a year.
Goodman Institute Analysis of Biden’s Tax and Social Security Reforms
Vice President Biden is proposing major changes to the federal personal income tax, Social Security’s payroll (FICA) tax, the federal corporate income tax, and Social Security’s benefit provisions
Goodman: Tax Reform for the Middle Class
We need to remove the most unfair, most anti-work, most anti-saving provisions of the tax code – ones that burden the middle-class. These include a social Security earnings penalty that can push senior workers into a 95% marginal tax rate, a tax on nonsocial security income that even hits tax-exempt bonds, and unfair restrictions on part-time workers and the self-employed. 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
How Kotlikoff’s Lifetime Tax Calculator Works
The Fiscal Analyzer (TFA) is a detailed life-cycle consumption-smoothing program that projects income, taxes and … Read More
Kotlikoff in Forbes: Was The Tax Reform Regressive? Proper Analysis Says No
This article first appeared in Forbes HERE. Many view the 2017 Republican tax reform … Read More
Study: 83% of the tax cut did not go to the very rich
Abstract: The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) represents the most significant change … Read More
Modern Families, Outdated Laws: Tax Reform Needed To Treat Wives and Mothers Fairly
(Dallas, TX) As we start to see the positive impacts of the most recent tax … Read More
Study: Tax Reform is Better Than We Have Been Told
(Dallas, TX) A new study by economists who were the source of key ideas in … Read More
Our Role in Tax Reform
The original Ryan/Brady tax reform was largely the brainchild of Goodman Institute economists Alan Auerbach (Berkeley) … Read More