The Center for Fiscal Equity

WM Health: Advancing the Next Generation of America’s Health Care Workforce , February 24, 2026 These comments reflect my experience staffin...

 WM:  Health Insurance CEOs , January 22, 2026 Please allow me to share an option that the CEOs who testified do not want you to consider. T...

WM Work Welfare:  Strengthening the Child Support Enforcement Program: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities for Modernization , January 21,...

WM Trade:  Maintaining American Innovation and Technology Leadership , January 13, 2026 Innovation and technology leadership are buzz words,...

Net interest on the debt is rolled over into new debt - where it becomes the leverage for capitalism to occur. Of course, if the asset marke...

Finance: The Rising Cost of Health Care: Considering Meaningful Solutions for all Americans , November 19, 2025 We disagree with the Chairma...

COLAs need to go up by an equal dollar amount - the same average amount that goes to Urban Workers. The minimum wage also needs to increase ...

WM WW SS:  Untapped Talent in America: Removing Barriers to Work and Supporting Opportunity for Individuals with Disabilities , September 9,...

This gets MMT close to where it needs to be. Taxation, especially of high incomes, must be seen as a way to regulate the excesses of capital...

Finance:  The President’s 2026 Health Care Agenda , September 4, 2025 I. Vaccines There are two aspects to vaccination policy that must be c...

A better option is 6.5*4 days or a 26 hour week (one third less), with a one-sixth decline in salary levels - but with a doubling of the min...

The Trump cuts to corporations without matching loophole closures were ill-advised, leading to job losses as I also predicted in 2017. In 20...

WM Oversight:  Making America the Crypto Capital  of the World: Ensuring Digital Asset Policy Built for the 21st Century , July 16, 2025 Fin...

This bill is largely ministerial and optics. Biden could have gotten a tax increase, plus extension of the good parts of the bill (which pre...

We do not owe the national debt or own debt assets on a per capita basis. What you owe is based on income tax paid (not social security, tha...

We strongly recommend that a baseline tariff amount be enacted as proposed here, giving the Administration limited ability to negotiate on s...

Social services, especially Unemployment Insurance, need a major overhaul.  The categorical grant approach reinforced a provincial view of f...

Background on Consumption Taxes Eventually, the United States needs to join the rest of the developed world and enact consumption taxes on c...

Visibility into how the national debt, held by both the public and the government at the household level, sheds light on why Social Security...

WM Social Security and Welfare & Work:  Hearing with the Commissioner of Social Security, Frank J. Bisignano There are two ways to defin...

WM :   Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent , June 11, 2025 Finance: The President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget for the Department of...