Most influential ACA amicus brief award
Kevin Outterson June 29, 2012
Goes to Jack Balkin at Yale Law School and Gillian Metzger & Trevor Morrison at Columbia Law School. They argued the constitutional tax issue in the 4th Circuit
Goes to Jack Balkin at Yale Law School and Gillian Metzger & Trevor Morrison at Columbia Law School. They argued the constitutional tax issue in the 4th Circuit
On Tuesday, in Florida, Mitt Romney said, Well right now, most people get their insurance through their employer and the reason they do that is
In his NEJM Perspectives piece published this week, Henry Aaron makes the case that taxes must rise or else entitlement programs will fall. [I]f all
2 overlooked aspects of the President’s proposal: 1. The missing provision: In Title 26, Section 5000A, strike “penalty” in each place
The 4th Circuit Liberty University opinion is out, and the 2-1 majority found the individual mandate to be a tax for the purposes of the
Despite our earlier, valiant coverage, the USG filed briefs yesterday in the 4th Circuit case conceding that the individual mandate is not a tax for
Simon Johnson gives a short course in today’s NYT Economix. Now we find ourselves again about to debate the fundamental Hamiltonian questions: At the federal
Some don’t think the way employer-sponsored health insurance premiums are not taxed counts as a subsidy. I’m not that interested in semantics, more interested in
I find that charts like these provide helpful perspective. The first two are from Citizens for Tax Justice. The last one is from the Center
As blogging goes, this is old news. In an article last week, David Leonhardt included the following graphic. We knew this already. Across a fairly
David Brooks: Democrats seem to believe that most Americans want to preserve the 20th-century welfare state programs. But they are unwilling to ask voters to
If you’ve been paying any attention for the last few days, you would imagine that Rep. Ryan’s plan is the first real idea for reducing