Super Committee

Interview with Donald Marron: Challenges for Tax Policy in the Current Economic and Political Environment

Interview Editor Kathryn Short recently had the opportunity to sit down with Donald Marron, Director of the Tax Policy Center. From his official biography: Marron previously served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, as acting director of the Congressional Budget Office, and as executive director of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee. Before his […]

Don’t be afraid of the big bad Trigger Mechanism

by Alex Engler It should come as no surprise that the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, more conveniently known as the super committee, is not making an overwhelming (or even just a whelming) amount of progress.  The root causes of the habitual stalemate over increased taxes versus budget cuts, entitlement spending, and defense appropriations […]