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Publications -- Taxes

Jul 01, 2007	ST #299 – Medicare: Past, Present and Future Although Social Security reform has received considerable attention in recent years, Medicare is the far-bigger problem. Medicare is growing at a faster rate and has an unfunded liability six times the size of Social Security.
Jun 22, 2007	ST #300 – Taxing the Poor The income tax is highly progressive. It takes a higher portion of the income of the rich than the poor. But federal, state and local governments raise revenues in a number of ways that are regressive, taking a greater portion of the incomes of the poor than the rich. In some cases, the total dollar amounts paid by the poor are higher than the amounts paid by the rich.
Jun 01, 2007	ST #298 – Does It Pay to Save? Does it pay to save? The answer is often no. In fact, penalties for saving are astronomical for some households, particularly young, single-parent and lower-income families. But these are the very people who need the strongest incentives to save for retirement.
May 21, 2007	BA #587 – Texas Health Care Reform Policymakers are debating changes to the state's Medicaid program - the joint federal-state health care program for the poor - and discussing ways to provide coverage to the state's large uninsured population through the private insurance market. Medicaid now takes 26 percent of the state budget, double the portion it consumed a little more than a decade ago.
May 17, 2007	BA #586 – Is Health Spending Out of Control? Since 1975, total spending on health care in the United States has doubled, and it now comprises one-sixth of the U.S. economy, or about $2.2 trillion. By 2016, some projections show total health spending almost doubling to $4.1 trillion and consuming one-fifth of the nation's gross domestic product.
Apr 19, 2007	BA #585 – Insuring the Uninsured: Five Steps to Improve the Massachusetts Plan Massachusetts enacted an ambitious plan for near-universal health insurance coverage in 2006, the product of a compromise between then-Gov. Mitt Romney and the state Legislature. The cornerstone of the plan is mandatory health insurance. Individuals must purchase insurance directly or get it through an employer or Medicaid.
Apr 07, 2007	BA #584 – A Wiser Way For Retirees to Donate Charitable gift funds are more than a toy of the nearly rich. They offer a surprising advantage to retirees with ordinary incomes. Using a charitable gift fund, a retired couple can increase their giving or increase the amount they spend on themselves. Or they can do a bit of both.
Mar 19, 2007	BA #583 – Pension Reform in Chile: Closing the Gap, Not Scrapping the System A quarter-century ago, Chile replaced its traditional social security system with personal retirement accounts funded by workers and invested in stocks and bonds. Chile's president recently proposed several modifications to its pension system, including a new retirement benefit funded by general government revenues.
Feb 08, 2007	BA #580 – Twelve Reform Steps for Texas Texas needs to end its addiction to inefficient, unresponsive public policies. To that end, the Legislature should go cold turkey and consider 12 radical changes.
Nov 21, 2006	ST #292 – Taxes and Economic Growth Some activities of government clearly contribute to economic growth. Beyond some minimum level, however, government becomes a net drain on the economy. Empirical evidence shows that as the tax burden rises beyond a certain level, the rate of economic growth slows.
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