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The Tax & Budget Bulletin is the Cato Institute's periodic review of fiscal policy, taxes and budgets. Click here to subscribe to the hard copy newsletter.
Current Issue
No. 64: "New Estimates of Effective Corporate Tax Rates on Business Investment," by Duanjie Chen and Jack M. Mintz; February 2011 (PDF, 110 KB)
Past Issues
No. 63: "Federal Aid-to-State Programs Top 1,100," by Chris Edwards; February 2011 (PDF, 106 KB)
No. 62: "U.S. Effective Corporate Tax Rate on New Investments: Highest in the OECD," by Duanjie Chen and Jack M. Mintz; May 2010 (PDF, 66 KB)
No. 61: "Public-Sector Unions," by Chris Edwards; March 2010 (PDF, 50 KB)
No. 60: "National Academy Fiscal Future Report," by Chris Edwards; January 2010 (PDF, 57 KB)
No. 59: "Employee Compensation in State and Local Governments," by Chris Edwards; January 2010 (PDF, 74 KB)
No. 58: "Will Federal Health Legislation Cause the Deficit to Soar?," by Daniel J. Mitchell; November 2009 (PDF, 62 KB)
No. 57: "Will Obama Raise Middle-Class Taxes to Fund Health Care?," by Chris Edwards and Michael D. Tanner; June 2009 (PDF, 38 KB)
No. 56: "Number of Federal Subsidy Programs Tops 1,800," by Chris Edwards; April 2009 (PDF, 60 KB)
No. 55: "Obama's Budget Builds on Bush Precedents," by Chris Edwards; March 2009 (PDF, 65 KB)
No. 54: "Deficit Spending: A Scenario Analysis," by Arnold Kling; February 2009 (PDF, 65 KB)
No. 53: "Spending Is Not Stimulus," by Daniel J. Mitchell; February 2009 (PDF, 67 KB)
No. 52: "The Troubling Return of Keynesianism," by Ike Brannon and Chris Edwards; January 2009 (PDF, 61 KB)
No. 51: "10 Reasons to Oppose a Stimulus Package for the States," by Chris Edwards; December 2008 (PDF, 54 KB)
No. 50: "Cutting the Effective Corporate Tax Rate," by Jack M. Mintz; October 2008 (PDF, 64 KB)
No. 49: "Corporate Tax Laffer Curve," by Chris Edwards; November 2007 (PDF, 100 KB)
No. 48: "Corporate Taxes: America Is Falling Behind," by Daniel J. Mitchell; July 2007 (PDF, 50 KB)
No. 47: "Milk Madness," by Chris Edwards; July 2007 (PDF, 84 KB)
No. 46: "The Sugar Racket," by Chris Edwards; June 2007 (PDF, 62 KB)
No. 45: "The Alternative Minimum Tax: Repeal Not Reform," by Chris Edwards; May 2007 (PDF, 37 KB)
No. 44: "The Tax Gap Mirage," by Daniel J. Mitchell; March 2007 (PDF, 51 KB)
No. 43: "Iceland Joins the Flat Tax Club," by Daniel J. Mitchell; February 2007 (PDF, 72 KB)
No. 42: "Improving on the President's 2008 Budget," by Chris Edwards; February 2007 (PDF, 77 KB)
No. 41: "Number of Federal Subsidy Programs Is Soaring," by Chris Edwards; November 2006 (PDF, 52 KB)
No. 40: "Unfunded State and Local Health Costs: $1.4 Trillion," by Chris Edwards and Jagadeesh Gokhale; October 2006 (PDF, 46 KB)
No. 39: "How to Spend $2.8 Trillion," by Chris Edwards; August 2006 (PDF, 49 KB)
No. 38: "Empowering Citizens to Monitor Federal Spending," by Chris Edwards; July 2006 (PDF, 54 KB)
No. 37: "State and Local Government Debt Is Soaring," by Chris Edwards; July 2006 (PDF, 45 KB)
No. 36: "Repealing the Federal Estate Tax," by Chris Edwards; June 2006 (PDF, 44 KB)
No. 35: "Federal Pay Outpaces Private-Sector Pay," by Chris Edwards; May 2006 (PDF, 84 KB)
No. 34: "Reducing Federal Corruption," by Chris Edwards; May 2006 (PDF, 44 KB)
No. 33: "Income Tax Rife with Complexity and Inefficiency," by Chris Edwards; April 2006 (PDF, 46 KB)
No. 32: "Capping Federal Spending," by Chris Edwards; March 2006 (PDF, 50 KB)
No. 31: "Improving on the President's 2007 Budget," by Chris Edwards; February 2006 (PDF, 49 KB)
No. 30: "State Revenue Boom Paves Way for Tax Cuts," by Chris Edwards; January 2006 (PDF, 46 KB)
No. 29: "State Bureaucracy Update," by Chris Edwards; January 2006 (PDF, 47 KB)
No. 28: "Catching Up to Global Tax Reforms," by Chris Edwards; November 2005 (PDF, 52 KB)
No. 27: "Privatize the Army Corps of Engineers," by Chris Edwards; October 2005 (PDF, 53 KB)
No. 26: "Bush Beats Johnson: Comparing the Presidents," by Stephen Slivinski; October 2005 (PDF, 43 KB)
No. 25: "The Government and the Great Depression," by Chris Edwards; September 2005 (PDF, 46 KB)
No. 24: "Pork: A Microcosm of the Overspending Problem," by Chris Edwards; August 2005 (PDF, 46 KB)
No. 23: "Combining Tax Reform and Health Care Reform with Large HSAs," by Michael F. Cannon; May 2005 (PDF, 63 KB)
No. 22: "A Proposal for a 'Dual-Rate Income Tax'," by Chris Edwards; February 2005 (PDF, 46 KB)
No. 21: "Corporate Tax Reform: Kerry, Bush, Congress Fall Short," by Chris Edwards; September 2004 (PDF, 44 KB)
No. 20: "Federal Aid to the States Ripe for Cuts," by Chris Edwards; May 2004 (PDF, 45 KB)
No. 19: "State Corporate Income Taxes Should Be Repealed," by Chris Edwards; April 2004 (PDF, 44 KB)
No. 18: "The U.S. Corporate Tax and the Global Economy," by Chris Edwards; September 2003 (PDF, 121 KB)
No. 17: "Government Schemes Cost More Than Promised," by Chris Edwards; September 2003 (PDF, 78 KB)
No. 16: "On Spending, Bush Is No Reagan," by Tad DeHaven and Veronique de Rugy; August 2003 (PDF, 130 KB)
No. 15: "The Federal Government in 2040," by Chris Edwards; June 2003 (PDF, 129 KB)
No. 14: "High Taxes and High Budget Deficits: The Hoover-Roosevelt Tax Increases of the 1930s," by Veronique de Rugy; March 2003 (PDF, 131 KB)
No. 13: "Tax Rates and Tax Revenue:The Mellon Income Tax Cuts of the 1920s," by Veronique de Rugy; February 2003 (PDF, 137 KB)
No. 12: "Dividend Taxes: U.S. Has the Second Highest Rate," by Chris Edwards; January 2003 (PDF, 72 KB)
No. 11: "Turning Roth IRAs into Universal Savings Accounts," by Ernest Christian and Chris Edwards; November 2002 (PDF, 141 KB)
No. 10: "Federal Government Should Increase Firing Rate," by Tad DeHaven and Chris Edwards; November 2002 (PDF, 155 KB)
No. 9: "Runaway Corporations: Political Band-Aids vs. Long-Term Solutions," by Veronique de Rugy; July 2002 (PDF, 56 KB)
No. 8: "Controlling Defense Costs," by Chris Edwards; May 2002 (PDF, 58 KB)
No. 7: "Corporate Welfare Update," by Tad DeHaven and Chris Edwards; May 2002 (PDF, 171 KB)
No. 6: "'Sunsetting' to Reform and Abolish Federal Agencies," by Chris Edwards; May 2002 (PDF, 149 KB)
No. 5: "New Evidence on the Old Phillips Curve," by William A. Niskanen and Alan Reynolds; May 2002 (PDF, 148 KB)
No. 4: "Top Ten Civil Liberties Abuses of the Income Tax," by Chris Edwards; April 2002 (PDF, 81 KB)
No. 3: "New Data Show U.S. Has Fourth Highest Corporate Tax Rate," by Chris Edwards; April 2002 (PDF, 76 KB)
No. 2: "Farm Reform Reversal," by Tad DeHaven and Chris Edwards; March 2002 (PDF, 79 KB)
No. 1: "Do Budget Deficits Raise Long-Term Interest Rates?," by Alan Reynolds; February 2002 (PDF, 78 KB)
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