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2007
HNR: Congress Considers Addressing Gaping Tax Loophole (8/3/07) HNR: Low Income Tax Credit Improvements Being Considered (6/1/07) Nearly 900 organizations sign letter to Congress in Support of Expanding Tax Credits for the Poor (5/25/07) Bishops send letter to Congress in Support of Strengthening CTC & EITC (5/21/07) CHN: Tax Day Thoughts & Actions (4/12/07) NPP: Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go? (4/5/07)
2006
HNR: Tax Extenders Bill Serves as Vehicle for Other Provisions (12/19/06) CTJ: The Bush Tax Cuts: Is Your State Better Off? (10/10/06) HNR: Congress Delays Action on Taxes (10/04/06) CBPP: Tax Cuts: Myths and Realities (9/27/06) The Mountain Mail: Estate Tax Helps American Dream (9/28/06)
CBPP: Combined Effect of Senate Proposals Would Be to Finance Near-Repeal of the Estate Tax with Cuts in Medicare, Veterans Benefits, School Lunches, and Other Programs (8/9/06) Since Last Minimum Wage Increase, Congress Has Reduced Estate Tax Burdens Nine Times If No Further Action Is Taken, Estate Tax Exemption Will Still Increase by 2009 While Value of Minimum Wage Will Continue to Fall in Programs for Middle- and Low-Income Households(8/3/06) Latest Data on Minimum Wage Workers and Taxable Estates, by State (8/4/06) HNR: Pension Bill Makes Permanent the Saver's Credit (8/7/06) HNR: Common Sense 1; Greed 0 (8/7/06) Economist and CHN Treasurer Jared Bernstein: The Day the System Worked (8/4/06) CHN: The Sneak Attack on Restaurant Workers (8/1/06) CBPP: President's Claim that Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves Refuted (7/27/06) HNR: Ominous Estate Tax Legislation Passes the House and Awaits Senate Action (7/6/06) HNR: Estate Tax Repeal Averted – Threats Still Loom (6/16/06) CBPP: The High Cost of Estate Tax Repeal (6/5/06) AFET: Over 740 Organizations Tell the Senate Not to Repeal the Estate Tax (6/1/06) HNR: Estate Tax Repeal on the Senate Agenda (5/19/06) HNR: Tax Cut Reconciliation Bill Passes - More Tax Cuts To Come (5/19/06) HNR: Tax Reconciliation Bill – Paid for in Part with Yet Another Tax Cut for the Rich (5/05/06) WP: Op-Ed: Comprehensive Tax Code Overhaul Is Overdue (4/26/06) WP Op-Ed: Paying for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy with . . . More Tax Cuts for the Wealthy! (4/17/06) NY Times: Big Gains Seen for the Rich in Tax Cuts for Investments (4/5/06) HNR: GOP Senate Budget Resolution Squeaks Through, 51-49; Floor Action Rejects Some of the Cuts in Human Needs Services (3/17/06) HNR: More Than 1,200 Groups Nationwide Sign Letter To Congress Opposing Budget Cuts (3/17/06) WP Editorial: Undynamic Analysis (2/21/06) (tax cuts do not pay for themselves) WP Op-ed: Trillion Dollar Gimmick: Extending Bush's Tax Cuts Through Sleight of Hand (2/19/06) HNR: GOP Leaders Hope to Jump Procedural Hurdles to Extend Tax Breaks (2/17/06) HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06) HNR: State of the Union Address Foreshadows Fiscal 2007 Budget Proposals (2/3/06) HNR: Senate Passes More Tax Breaks for Wealthy (2/3/06) Boston Globe: Tax Cut Left-Overs (1/2/06)
2005
HNR: More Tax Breaks for Wealthy Approved by Congress (12/9/05) HNR: Key Moderate Senator Forces Delay on Bill Cutting Taxes for Wealthy (11/11/05) American Prospect: President's Tax Panel Recommendation Targets Upper Class (11/7/05) NYTimes Ed: The Best Hope for Fiscal Sanity (11/8/05) NYTimes Ed: How Colorado Got Its Government Back [on Taxpayer Bill of Rights] (11/3/05) NY Times: Tax Panel Urges Big Cut In Mortgage Deduction (11/2/05) WP: Panel Recommends Major Tax Overhaul (11/1/05) WP: Presidential Panel's Tax Plans Meet Criticism (10/19/05) HNR: House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) NYTimes: Tax Panel Says Popular Breaks Should Be Cut (10/12/05) NYTimes Editorial: Tax Cuts are Not the Priority (10/10/05) HNR: Conservatives Continue to Press for Cuts to Low-Income Services and New Tax Breaks for Wealthy (9/30/05) HNR: Estate Tax Vote Postponed (9/16/05) HNR: Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Food Stamps and Medicaid (9/16/05) American Prospect: C onservatives Try Again To Bury The Estate Tax (8/25/05) NYTimes: Death Tax? Double Tax? For Most, It's No Tax (8/15/05) NY Times: The State of the Estate Tax (8/8/05) WP: Estate Tax Myths (7/24/05) HNR: Estate Tax Vote in Senate - Not If, But When (7/22/05) WP Op-Ed: In Defense of Success: Government Really Can Lessen Poverty (7/19/05) NY Times Op-Ed: Un-Spin the Budget (7/11/05) NY Times: Few Farmers Owe Estate Tax, CBO Says (7/10/05) NY Times Editorial: Some Estate Tax Compromise Proposals Are As Bad As Full Repeal (6/21/05) HNR: Social Security Pro-Privatization Forces Divided on Strategy (6/17/05) HNR: Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) WP: GOP Leaders Reach Budget Deal (4/28/05) WP Editorial: Worse Than No Budget (4/28/05) WP: The "Death Tax" Divide (4/24/05) NYT: Critics Are Silent on Loss of Estate Tax (4/24/05) HNR: House Votes to Permanently Repeal Estate Tax; Multi-Millionaires to Benefit (4/15/05) HNR: Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) WP Op-Ed: The Paris Hilton Tax Cut (4/12/05) WP Editorial: The Rich Get Richer (4/11/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) WP Op-Ed: To Trump Bush on Taxes (3/15/05) NYTimes Editorial: Mr. Bush's Stealthy Tax Increase (3/13/05) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) HNR: Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) WP Op-Ed: Two Tax Cuts Not Yet in Effect Benefit Only the Wealthy, Should be Repealed (2/22/05)
2004
HNR: Congress Passes Yet Another Tax Cut - Future Generations to Pick Up Tab (10/1/04) WP Editorial: Another Bad Tax Bill (9/21/04) HNR: Senate and House Leadership Look to Pass More Tax Breaks - Still Not Paid For (7/19/04) HNR: House Rejects Dangerous Budget Process Bill (7/2/04) HNR: Budget Process Bill Endangers Services for Seniors, Families and Others (6/7/04) HNR: House Passes Child Tax Credit Legislation (5/21/04) WP Editorial: Leave No Rich Child Behind (5/19/04) HNR: Tax Cutting Agenda Moves Forward (5/7/04) HNR: Why No Budget Resolution This Year is Not Such a Bad Idea (5/7/04) HNR: Still No Budget Resolution - But Tax Cuts Moving Forward in the House (4/23/04) HNR: House, Senate Unable To Agree On Budget Before Recess (4/9/04)
2003 HNR: Child Tax Credit Compromise Not Reached; Advocates Keep Up Pressure (7/18/03) HNR: Tax Credit For Low-Income Children Stymied (6/23/03) HNR: Senate Passes Bill To Change Inequalities In Child Tax Credit (6/6/03) HNR: Tax Bill Gets Final Approval In Congress (5/23/03) HNR: IRS Proposes Restrictive Changes To Earned Income Tax Credit (5/23/03) HNR: Tax Cut Legislation Moves Through GOP-Controlled Congress (5/9/03) HNR: Congress Approves Unusual Budget Resolution (4/14/03) HNR: Senate Budget Resolution Slashes New Tax Cut (3/27/03) HNR: Opposition to Bush "Stimulus" Plan Grows (1/31/03) HNR: Bush Proposes $674 Billion "Economic Stimulus" Package (1/17/03) => Back to Tax Policy Main Page
