Carbon Tax: Potential for a New Fiscal Solution
A panel of experts discussed the potential for a well-designed carbon tax to play a role in putting our nation on a more sustainable fiscal path.
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A panel of experts discussed the potential for a well-designed carbon tax to play a role in putting our nation on a more sustainable fiscal path.
The Financial Times and the Peterson Foundation have wrapped up a year-long initiative to track voter sentiment on economic and fiscal issues.
The current budget process is ill-suited for managing the nation’s long-term fiscal affairs. Learn about possible reforms to reimagine the budget process.
https://www.pgpf.org/finding-solutions/budget-process-reforms
Significant damage was done to America’s fiscal outlook over the past year.
Tax reform done right will promote economic growth, increase fairness and simplicity, and improve the nation’s fiscal outlook.
Tax reform done right would promote economic growth, make our fiscal outlook more sustainable, reduce the complexity and burden of compliance, and increase the system’s transparency and fairness.
Tax breaks totaled over $1.8 trillion in 2023. To put that in perspective, that’s more than the government spends on Social Security, defense, or Medicare and Medicaid.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/12/eight-of-the-largest-tax-breaks-explained
The federal government finances its operations with taxes, fees, and other receipts collected from many different sectors of the economy.
https://www.pgpf.org/finding-solutions/understanding-the-budget/revenues
The top 20 percent of income earners receive over half the value of major tax expenditures.
https://www.pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0199_distribution_tax_expenditures
As a share of GDP, the U.S. corporate income tax revenue is the lowest among G7 countries.