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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. 50: "Cutting the Effective Corporate Tax Rate," by Jack M. Mintz, October 2008. (PDF, 64Kb., 3 pp)
Past Issues
No. 49: "Corporate Tax Laffer Curve," by Chris Edwards, November 2007. (PDF, 100Kb., 2 pp)
No. 48: "Corporate Taxes: America Is Falling Behind," by Daniel J. Mitchell, July 2007. (PDF, 50Kb., 2 pp)
No. 47: "Milk Madness," by Chris Edwards, July 2007. (PDF, 84Kb., 2 pp)
No. 46: "The Sugar Racket," by Chris Edwards, June 2007. (PDF, 62Kb., 2 pp)
No. 45: "The Alternative Minimum Tax: Repeal Not Reform," by Chris Edwards, May 2007. (PDF, 37Kb., 2 pp)
No. 44: "The Tax Gap Mirage," by Daniel Mitchell, March 2007. (PDF, 51Kb., 2 pp)
No. 43: "Iceland Joins the Flat Tax Club," by Daniel Mitchell, February 2007. (PDF, 72Kb., 2 pp)
No. 42: "Improving on the President's 2008 Budget," by Chris Edwards, February 2007. (PDF, 77Kb., 2 pp)
No. 41: "Number of Federal Subsidy Programs Is Soaring," by Chris Edwards, November 2006. (PDF, 52Kb., 2 pp)
No. 40: "Unfunded State and Local Health Costs: $1.4 Trillion," by Chris Edwards and Jagadeesh Gokhale, October 2006. (PDF, 46Kb., 2 pp)
No. 39: "How to Spend $2.8 Trillion," by Chris Edwards, August 2006. (PDF, 49Kb., 2 pp)
No. 38: "Empowering Citizens to Monitor Federal Spending," by Chris Edwards, July 2006. (PDF, 54Kb., 2 pp)
No. 37: "State and Local Government Debt Is Soaring," by Chris Edwards, July 2006. (PDF, 45Kb., 2 pp)
No. 36: "Repealing the Federal Estate Tax," by Chris Edwards, June 2006. (PDF, 44Kb., 2 pp)
No. 35: "Federal Pay Outpaces Private-Sector Pay," by Chris Edwards, May 2006. (PDF, 84Kb., 2 pp)
No. 34: "Reducing Federal Corruption," by Chris Edwards, May 2006. (PDF, 44Kb., 2 pp)
No. 33: "Income Tax Rife with Complexity and Inefficiency," by Chris Edwards, April 2006. (PDF, 46Kb., 2 pp)
No. 32: "Capping Federal Spending," by Chris Edwards, March 2006. (PDF, 50Kb., 2 pp)
No. 31: "Improving on the President's 2007 Budget," by Chris Edwards, February 2006. (PDF, 49Kb., 2 pp)
No. 30: "State Revenue Boom Paves Way for Tax Cuts," by Chris Edwards, January 2006. (PDF, 46Kb., 2 pp)
No. 29: "State Bureaucracy Update," by Chris Edwards, January 2006. (PDF, 47Kb., 2 pp)
No. 28: "Catching Up to Global Tax Reforms," by Chris Edwards, November 2005. (PDF, 52Kb., 2 pp)
No. 27: "Privatize the Army Corps of Engineers," by Chris Edwards, October 2005. (PDF, 53Kb., 2 pp)
No. 26: "Bush Beats Johnson: Comparing the Presidents," by Stephen Slivinski, October 2005. (PDF, 43Kb., 2 pp)
No. 25: "The Government and the Great Depression," by Chris Edwards, September 2005. (PDF, 46Kb., 2 pp)
No. 24: "Pork: A Microcosm of the Overspending Problem," by Chris Edwards, August 2005. (PDF, 46Kb., 2 pp)
No. 23: "Combining Tax Reform and Health Care Reform with Large HSAs," by Michael F. Cannon, May 2005. (PDF, 63Kb., 2 pp)
No. 22: "A Proposal for a 'Dual-Rate Income Tax'," by Chris Edwards, February 2005. (PDF, 46Kb., 2 pp)
No. 21: "Corporate Tax Reform: Kerry, Bush, Congress Fall Short," by Chris Edwards, September 2004. (PDF, 44Kb., 2 pp)
No. 20: "Federal Aid to the States Ripe for Cuts," by Chris Edwards, May 2004. (PDF, 45Kb., 2 pp)
No. 19: "State Corporate Income Taxes Should Be Repealed," by Chris Edwards, April 2004. (PDF, 44Kb., 2 pp)
No. 18: "The U.S. Corporate Tax and the Global Economy," by Chris Edwards, September 2003. (PDF, 121Kb., 2 pp)
No. 17: "Government Schemes Cost More Than Promised," by Chris Edwards, September 2003. (PDF, 78Kb., 2 pp)
No. 16: "On Spending, Bush Is No Reagan," by Veronique de Rugy and Tad DeHaven, August 2003. (PDF, 130Kb., 2 pp)
No. 15: "The Federal Government in 2040," by Chris Edwards, June 2003. (PDF, 129Kb., 2 pp)
No. 14: "High Taxes and High Budget Deficits: The Hoover-Roosevelt Tax Increases of the 1930s," by Veronique de Rugy, March 2003. (PDF, 131Kb., 2 pp)
No. 13: "Tax Rates and Tax Revenue:The Mellon Income Tax Cuts of the 1920s," by Veronique de Rugy, February 2003. (PDF, 132Kb., 2 pp)
No. 12: "Dividend Taxes: U.S. Has the Second Highest Rate," by Chris Edwards, January 2003. (PDF, 72Kb., 2 pp)
No. 11: "Turning Roth IRAs into Universal Savings Accounts," by Chris Edwards and Ernest Christian, November 2002. (PDF, 141Kb., 2 pp)
No. 10: "Federal Government Should Increase Firing Rate," by Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven, November 2002. (PDF, 155Kb., 2 pp)
No. 9: "Runaway Corporations: Political Band-Aids vs. Long-Term Solutions," by Veronique de Rugy, July 2002. (PDF, 56Kb., 2 pp)
No. 8: "Controlling Defense Costs," by Chris Edwards, May 2002. (PDF, 58Kb., 2 pp)
No. 7: "Corporate Welfare Update," by Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven, May 2002. (PDF, 171Kb., 2 pp)
No. 6: "'Sunsetting' to Reform and Abolish Federal Agencies," by Chris Edwards, May 2002. (PDF, 149Kb., 2 pp)
No. 5: "New Evidence on the Old Phillips Curve," by William Niskanen and Alan Reynolds, May 2002. (PDF, 148Kb., 2 pp)
No. 4: Top Ten Civil Liberties Abuses of the Income Tax," by Chris Edwards, April 2002. (PDF | HTML)
No. 3: "New Data Show U.S. Has Fourth Highest Corporate Tax Rate," by Chris Edwards, April 2002. (PDF | HTML)
No. 2: "Farm Reform Reversal," by Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven, March 2002. (PDF | HTML)
No. 1: "Do Budget Deficits Raise Long-Term Interest Rates?" by Alan Reynolds, February 2002. (PDF | HTML)