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12 Jun 2019, 7:33 am
Martin Feldstein (center) is awarded the 1999 Tax Foundation Distinguished Service Award for his private-sector contributions to tax policy as president of the National Bureau of Economic Research. [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 8:13 am
Here is what Harvard Economist Martin Feldstein had to say in the yesterday's Washington Post: President Obama's proposal to limit the tax deductibility of charitable contributions would effectively transfer more than $7 billion a year from the nation's charitable institutions... [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 3:57 am
MARTIN FELDSTEIN: We Can Lower Oil Prices Now. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 12:51 pm
Today in the Wall Street Journal, a Martin Feldstein op-ed on border adjustment argued that its flaws are purely "illusory," since "[f]oreign exporters would pay for the Republicans' proposed trillion-dollar tax cut").Whatever one thinks about the merits of border adjustment, this op-ed does not appear to be an entirely above-board intellectual exercise. [read post]
26 Dec 2009, 10:56 am
MARTIN FELDSTEIN: Gold is a poor inflation hedge. [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 8:09 am
Might Feldstein be right? [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 10:50 am
Wall Street Journal op-ed, The 'Tax Expenditure' Solution for Our National Debt, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): The credits and subsidies that make the tax code so complicated cost big bucks. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 3:09 am
Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics), Daniel Feenberg (NBER) & Maya MacGuineas (New America Foundation) have posted Capping Individual Tax Expenditure Benefits on NBER. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 1:57 pm
Today's WSJ op-ed is available as such to subscribers only, but you can find the full text of it on Feldstein's webpage here.Unfortunately, as a general matter only principled or genuine conservatives, rather than the right-wingers who play the role on TV and dominate the Republican Party, accept the central point of TE analysis that a targeted special-purpose tax cut is substantively equivalent to the hated "government spending. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 11:36 am
MARTIN FELDSTEIN: The Economy Is Worse Than You Think. [read post]
14 May 2009, 3:15 am
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Tax Increases Could Kill the Recovery, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): The barrage of tax increases proposed in President Barack Obama's budget could, if enacted by Congress, kill any chance of an early... [read post]
22 Feb 2013, 1:00 am
Wall Street Journal op-ed: A Simple Route to Major Deficit Reduction, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): Putting a cap on tax expenditures—those features of the tax code that are a substitute for direct government spending—can break the current fiscal impasse and prevent the dangerous explosion of the... [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 9:41 am
Martin Feldstein offers the best possible two-paragraph summary of the health care problem:The American health-care system suffers from three serious problems: Health-care costs are rising much faster than our incomes. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 6:05 am
Wall Street Journal op-ed, The Tax Reform Evidence From 1986, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): Experience implies that the combination of base broadening and rate reduction would raise revenue equal to about 4% of existing tax revenue. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 12:00 pm
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Romney's Tax Plan Can Raise Revenue, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): Mitt Romney's plan to cut taxes and offset the resulting revenue loss by limiting tax breaks has been attacked as "mathematically impossible. [read post]
5 May 2011, 12:00 pm
New York Times op-ed, Raise Taxes, but Not Tax Rates, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): Reducing the budget deficit and stopping the explosion of our national debt will require more tax revenue as well as reduced government spending. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 5:16 am
Lower Corporate Tax Rates, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): President Obama has reached out to the business community with talk of lowering the corporate tax rate and improving the tax treatment of profits earned abroad by American companies.... [read post]
12 May 2010, 10:08 am
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Extend the Bush Tax Cuts—For Now: Deficits Are a Real Problem but the Recovery Is Still Too Fragile to Choke Off Growth With Higher Rates, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): This is not the time for a tax increase. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 2:00 am
Martin Feldstein (WSJ op-ed), How to Make the Tax System Fairer and Save Social Security: The U.S. faces two major fiscal problems. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 7:55 pm
MARTIN FELDSTEIN: ObamaCare’s Crippling Deficits. [read post]
