Leonard Burman
Leonard Burman
Leonard "Len" E. Burmanis a nationally recognized economist, tax policy expert, and writer who currently serves as the Robert C. Pozen Director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, and the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University...
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The deficit is a little smaller because of this voluntary tax.
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There was a proposal in Congress that would raise a point of order against any tax proposal that would not deal with the AMT. It died.
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The experience with past employer (tax) credits is they're not particularly effective,
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This is a problem that should have been dealt with when we had the money, and it wasn't.
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The subsidies encourage people to get insurance at work, stifling the individual non-group market, and they encourage employers to provide overly generous insurance since the cost is subsidized. What's more, the subsidy is upside down - aiding mostly the high-income families that would probably purchase insurance under any scenario, and providing little aid to those of modest means.
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It's generating a huge portion of our tax revenues,
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Will Rogers once said, 'If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.' Medicare is in a deep hole. Maybe it is time to stop digging.
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All economists agree tax policy has an effect on the economy. The hard thing is to figure out how to measure these effects in the real world.