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Unfair but balanced commentary on tax and budget policy, contemporary U.S. politics and culture, and whatever else happens to come up
My books and articles
- Bonfires of the American Dream
- Literature and Inequality
- Fixing U.S. International Taxation
- Getting It
- Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax
- Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy
- Do Deficits Matter?
- Making Sense of Social Security Reform
- Who Should Pay for Medicare?
- When Rules Change
- Corporate Tax Shelters in a Global Economy
- Federalism in Taxation: The Case for Greater Uniformity
- My articles on SSRN
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- Video of the NYU Forum on extending the Bush tax cuts
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- Cheerful discussions of the long-term U.S. budget ...
- Unintended ambiguity?
- Talk today at St. John's University Law School
- Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead
- New publications, part 2
- New publications, part 1
- Expansionary fiscal austerity?
- This is going too far
- Disappointing discovery of the day
- Forum on the Bush tax cuts: official link now posted
- Invidious rhetoric directed at fellow hominoids
- Expiring tax cuts - early notice of NYU Law School...
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About Me
- Daniel Shaviro
- New York, New York, United States
- I am the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School. My research mainly emphasizes tax policy, government transfers, budgetary measures, social insurance, and entitlements reform. My most recent books are (1) Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009) and (2) Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy (2006). My other books include Do Deficits Matter? (1997), When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000), Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), Who Should Pay for Medicare? (2004), Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy (2006), Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009), and Fixing the U.S. International Tax Rules (forthcoming). I am also the author of a novel, Getting It. I am married with two children (boys aged 24 and 21) as well as three cats. For my wife Pat's quilting blog, see Patwig’s Blog.
2 comments:
You made an excellent point regarding the game of chicken between Republicans and Democrats. It will be interesting to see how this game plays out given the new No Compromise platform by some members of the Republican Party. I wonder if some Democrats are thinking to themselves they can quietly get a compromise on a spending program in exchange for a tax cut.
One point that went unmentioned was the Republicans success at blaming the Democrats for "letting The Bush Tax Cuts expire." Why isn't there any finger pointing at the Congress that passed EGTRRA, particularly the Senate, for making the tax cuts temporary instead of permanent. Some commentators suggest there could have been circumstances that would have led to 60 votes in the Senate.
Public ignorance about the insider details is so great that Democrats got the blame for Republican obstructionism. So no surprise that they succeeded in painting expiration of the tax cuts as a Democratic plot to raise taxes (which WSJ editorials, for example, pretty much expressly said).
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