Regressive Tax Proposals

Blog Posts

• State of Play: The Coming Debate Over the Ryan and Trump Tax Plans -- 01/17/2017
• Congress Shouldn't Defy Public Opinion and Good Policy by Cutting Taxes for Corporations and the Wealthy -- 01/17/2017
• Examining the Three Key Unanswered Questions for Tax Reform in 2017 -- 11/30/2016
• Donald Trump's Revised Tax Plan Fails to Answer Hard Questions, Remains a Budget-Busting Giveaway to the Wealthy -- 08/10/2016
• Trump Child Care Tax Break: Good PR, But Bad Policy That Will Do Nothing for Low-Income Families -- 08/08/2016

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Publications

• Corporation Integration: A Solution in Search of a Problem -- 05/16/2016
• Why Lawmakers Should Reject the Deficit-Financed $680 Billion Tax Cut Deal -- 12/17/2015
• Press Statement: Compromise? Good Things in the Extenders Package Come at Far Too High a Price -- 12/16/2015
• CTJ Statement: Trump Tax Plan Would Cost $12 Trillion Over 10 Years -- 09/28/2015
• More Than Half of Jeb Bush's Tax Cuts Would Go To the Top 1% -- 09/11/2015
• Jeb Bush's Tax Plan Is a Corporate Giveaway Disguised as Tax Reform -- 09/09/2015
• Press Statement: Gov. Kasich Is a 'Compassionate' Tax-Cut-for-the-Rich Conservative -- 07/21/2015
• The Koch Brothers' Ugly Vision for Tax Deform -- 06/19/2014
• The Camp Tax Plan Is a Regressive $1.7 Trillion Tax Cut -- 04/07/2014
• Another Ryan Budget Gives Millionaires Average Tax Cut of At Least $200,000 -- 04/02/2014
• Paul Ryan's Latest Budget Plan Would Give Millionaires a Tax Cut of $200,000 or More -- 03/13/2013
• Mitt Romney's Tax Plan Would Give Average Tax Break of at Least $250,000 to People Making Over $1 Million -- 08/10/2012
• Ryan Budget Plan Would Cut Income Taxes for Millionaires by at Least $187,000 Annually and Facilitate Corporate Tax Avoidance -- 03/22/2012
• GOP Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans Favor Richest 1 Percent -- 01/06/2012
• GOP Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans Favor Richest in New Hampshire -- 01/06/2012
• GOP Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans Favor Richest Iowans -- 01/03/2012
• Herman Cain's "9-9-9 Plan" -- 10/17/2011
• Rick Perry's "Flat Tax" and "Fair Tax" Both Mean Higher Taxes for Most Americans, Lower Taxes for the Rich -- 08/24/2011
• House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's Goal Is to Shrink Government, Not the Deficit -- 04/08/2011
• Not Just a Tax Cut: CTJ Exposes the Folly of John Boehner's "CutGO" -- 11/29/2010
• GOP Tax Cut Bill Would Add Almost $7 Trillion to America's National Debt To Further Enrich the Wealthiest -- 08/03/2010
• Rep. Ryan's House GOP Budget Plan: Federal Government Would Collect $2 Trillion Less Over a Decade and Yet Require Bottom 90 Percent to Pay Higher Taxes -- 03/09/2010
• Senator Specter's "Flat Tax" Cuts Taxes for the Richest 5% and Raises Taxes for Everyone Else -- 02/19/2010
• Update on House GOP Budget Plan -- 04/02/2009
• House GOP Leaders' Budget Plan: Poor Pay More and Rich Pay Less Under Plan that Costs $300 Billion More Annually than President's Plan -- 03/27/2009
• The Tax Proposals of Presidential Candidates John McCain and Barack Obama -- 10/16/2008
• House GOP Tax and Entitlement Plan Would Raise Taxes on Four Fifths of Americans While Slashing Taxes on the Wealthy -- 07/07/2008
• Bush Panel Set to Propose Huge Deficits and Major Tax Shift Onto Wage Earners -- 10/18/2005
• Impact of a National Sales Tax -- 09/01/2004
• Flat Tax Proposals: An Introduction to Recent Legislation -- 11/01/1998
• The 23 Percent Solution? -- 01/23/1998
• Flat Tax Quotes -- 05/12/1996
• Detailed tables on the effects of the Flat Tax on Texans -- 03/08/1996
• Dick Armey & Steve Forbes's Plot to Raise Taxes on Most Texans -- 03/08/1996
• Detailed tables on the effects of the Flat Tax on New Yorkers -- 03/05/1996
• Most New Yorkers Would Be Hit Hard by "Flat Tax" -- 03/05/1996
• Armey Flat Tax Distributional Tables -- 02/06/1996
• Armey Flat Tax, Table of Examples -- 02/06/1996
• Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr.'s $1.9 Billion Tax Cut -- for Himself -- 02/06/1996
• Flat On Our Backs -- 02/01/1996
• Kemp Commission: Damn the Deficit, Full Speed Backwards -- 01/17/1996
• Estimating Revenue Losses from the Armey Flat Tax: A Chronology -- 07/27/1995
• The Flat Taxers' Flat Distortions -- 06/12/1995
• Flat tax and other consumption tax proposals discussed -- 05/17/1995
• Voodoo Economics: The Sequel -- 09/25/1994