The Center for Fiscal Equity

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...

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 ...