The Center for Fiscal Equity

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...

WM Work & Welfare: Aging Out is Not a Plan: Reimagining Futures for Foster Youth , June 12, 2025 As we suggested last year, to better me...

 Please share the following in a Dear Colleague letter. The June Treasury Bulletin is hot off the presses. Using information in this documen...

Over the past few weeks, I have been writing about the tax aspects of tariff policy - how because we do not have a Value Added Tax, we need ...

Finance, April 8, 2025 ; WM, April 9, 2025 Trump has broken the back of neoliberalism - as his voters wanted. He mimics their social biases ...

Trump and his supporters have, as a matter of policy, rejected what was the Neoliberal consensus. Elections matter. See my video on this at ...

Trump has broken the back of neoliberalism - as his voters wanted. He mimics their social biases (which he does not believe privately - exce...

WM Trade:  American Trade Enforcement Priorities , February 25, 2025 This Subcommittee will have more impact than any other in the tax refor...

WM Health:  Modernizing American Health Care: Creating Healthy Options and Better Incentives,   February 11, 2025 The healthiest option is f...

 WM Oversight:  IRS Return on Investment and the Need for Modernization , February 11, 2025 Please see the first attachment for the latest v...

What Elon Musk is trying to do has been done before by the Grace Commission, Reform'88, Reinventing Government chaired by Gore, the Obam...

CORE COMMENTS: The general approach to reform social services is to provide a form of guaranteed income, but not through a general subsidy f...