Responsible Fiscal Policy in a Low Interest Rate World
The first important determinant of a country’s fiscal health is its financing costs.
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The first important determinant of a country’s fiscal health is its financing costs.
Major tax expenditures tend to benefit high income taxpayers more than lower income groups.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2016/04/who-benefits-from-tax-expenditures
The Peterson Foundation’s 2012 Fiscal Summit–America's Case For Action convenes the nation's leading fiscal policy experts and elected officials at a critical moment of opportunity to make progress on America's long-term fiscal challenges.
Tax reform done right will promote economic growth, increase fairness and simplicity, and improve the nation’s fiscal outlook.
One issue that most lawmakers and voters agree on is that our tax system needs reform.
https://www.pgpf.org/infographic/how-the-us-tax-system-works
While this budget would be a step in the right direction, it does not adequately address the underlying structural imbalance that defines our fiscal outlook.
Peter G. Peterson pens an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about tax aversion syndrome.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/tax-aversion-syndrome-and-our-deficit-future-by-peter-g-peterson
Most Medicaid dollars are spent on disabled and elderly beneficiaries, whose incomes and financial resources are low enough to qualify for the program.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/who-benefits-from-medicaid
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.