Howard Gleckman

While extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would benefit most taxpayers, the biggest winners would be those making $450,000 or more, the Tax Policy Center found.

The GOP platform is filled with promises for “our Great Seniors.” But there is little policy behind most campaign pledges and many irreconcilable contradictions.

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A worldwide 10 percent tariff and a 60 percent tariff on Chinese goods proposed by former president Donald Trump would lower average after-tax incomes by about $1,800.

In a campaign that has not yet shown many of its policy cards, Harris has offered only the roughest sketch of a governing agenda.

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is making inflation-fighting a key policy plank in his campaign. The problem: Many of his specific policy prescriptions would make inflation worse.