All articles from Howard Gleckman
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Tax VOX Five tough challenges for Obama's second term
With his reelection Tuesday, President Obama faces a second term full of painful choices on issues ranging from the fiscal cliff to Medicare and Medicaid, Gleckman writes.
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Tax VOX The end of a disappointing campaign for both Obama, Romney
Gleckman asks: How do both presidential candidates get away with dodging critical fiscal issues on the campaign trail? We let them, he answers.
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Tax VOX What is Mitt Romney’s tax plan?
Howard Gleckman offers a breakdown of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's proposed tax plan.
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Tax VOX What is President Obama's tax plan?
Gleckman offers a description of what President Barack Obama has pledged to do on tax policy if he is reelected president in November.
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Tax VOX The 10 biggest differences between the Romney and Obama tax plans
President Obama and GOP candidate Mitt Romney have very similar tax plans, Gleckman writes, but there are some key differences.
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Tax VOX The real lesson about capping itemized deductions
The campaign of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has criticized the Tax Policy Center for new research that provides evidence that a deduction cap is a pretty good, though insufficient, idea, Gleckman writes.
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Tax VOX What the Joint Tax Committee really said about tax reform
Gleckman takes a closer look at a new analysis of tax reform by the Joint Committee on Taxation. His perspective may offer some relief to tax reformers.
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Tax VOX Romney plan: Rich to pay same share of taxes? Or $230,000 less?
Under Mitt Romney's tax plan, an across-the-board cut would allow the top 1 percent to pay less in taxes, as Obama charges. But they could still pay the same overall share, as Romney claims, if taxes go down for everyone.
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Tax VOX What did we learn from Obama and Romney in the presidential debate? Not much
The presidential debate showed almost nothing new about how either Romney or Obama would govern over the next four years, Gleckman writes.
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Tax VOX Can the fiscal cliff push Congress to agree on budget deal?
Gleckman asks: Will it take the fear of a financial market collapse and a cliff-driven recession to change the karma on Capitol Hill? Or, can Congress find an easier route to fiscal sanity by ducking the coming showdown?
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Tax VOX What happens if Congress goes over the fiscal cliff? Taxes rise.
Americans could face an average tax hike of almost $3,500 in 2013 if Congress goes over the fiscal cliff, Gleckman writes. The looming fiscal cliff poses a major threat for the US economy.
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Tax VOX Five ways to tax the 47 percent
Gleckman offers five suggestions for reducing the portion of Americans who do not pay federal income tax.
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Tax VOX Romney, the middle-class and taxes
Romney has promised a 20 percent across-the-board tax rate cut, and some say he'll pay for it with higher taxes on low- and middle-income households. Gleckman's not convinced.
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Tax VOX The 47 percent: a case study
Gleckman profiles a single mom who likely owes no income tax thanks largely to the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit.
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Tax VOX What Mitt Romney didn't learn from Ronald Reagan about taxes
There are so many things the former Massachusetts governor could learn from the former California governor’s presidential campaigns. But I have in mind only one lesson not learned by Mitt Romney — how Reagan ran on tax reform in 1984.
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Tax VOX Do corporate tax breaks benefit the middle class?
Revisions in the definition of the corporate income tax may assume that workers bear some of the corporate tax burden.
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Tax VOX What was missing from Obama's speech? A plan.
Convention speeches are not supposed to be State of the Union laundry lists. They are intended to frame a candidate’s vision. But for that vision to mean anything, it needs to be buttressed by real policy. And that went missing at both conventions, though in very different ways.
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Tax VOX Mandates vs. tax subsidies: Which encourages more saving?
Tax subsidies and mandatory savings systems are both policies designed to promote saving and investing, but which is more effective?
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Tax VOX Where was tax reform at the GOP convention?
In last night’s acceptance speech, Mitt Romney sketched out his personal biography and delivered an effective brief on why we shouldn’t reelect President Obama. But, oddly, when it came to taxes he was nearly silent.
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Tax VOX Resurrecting the Ryan budget
While the Romney camp is sure to argue their candidate's fiscal policy is of his own making, his new running mate Paul Ryan’s more comprehensive and controversial plans will likely be a major campaign issue.
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