Ben Ritz
Contributor and Director, PPI Center at Forbes
Director of @PPI’s Center for Funding America's Future. No longer an active Tweeter, so better to connect with me by email: [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
progressivepolicy.org | Ben Ritz |Alex Kilander |Max Sherrill
From our Budget Breakdown series highlighting problems in fiscal policy to inform the 2025 tax and budget debate. For months, Republican leaders have sought to direct the official scorekeepers at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to score their upcoming tax and spending bill against a “current policy” baseline.
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Nov 1, 2024 |
forbes.com | Ben Ritz
Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, former president Donald Trump has spontaneously proposed roughly a dozen tax cuts that sound perfectly targeted toward constituencies he wants to win over. For hourly workers: no taxes on overtime pay. For Nevada service workers: no taxes on tips. For the Michigan auto industry: tax-deductibility for car loan interest. For people in the Southeast that were recently hit by hurricanes: tax deductions for home electricity generators.
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Sep 18, 2024 |
forbes.com | Ben Ritz
A column in the Wall Street Journal last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) and former Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas), titled “Welfare is What’s Eating the Budget,” argued that “means-tested programs, not Medicare and Social Security, are behind today’s massive debt.”And it’s profoundly wrong.
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Sep 18, 2024 |
progressivepolicy.org | Ben Ritz
Ritz for Forbes: No, Welfare Isn’t ‘What’s Eating The Budget’ – This Is 09.18.2024 By Ben RitzA column in the Wall Street Journal last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) and former Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas), titled “Welfare is What’s Eating the Budget,” argued that “means-tested programs, not Medicare and Social Security, are behind today’s massive debt.” And it’s profoundly wrong.
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Aug 15, 2024 |
progressivepolicy.org | Ben Ritz
Ritz for Forbes: There’s A Better Way To Cut Taxes For Workers Than Exempting Tips 08.15.2024 By Ben RitzWhen Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) first proposed to exempt tips from federal income taxes last month, it sounded to many like a common-sense way to give tax relief to working Americans who feel left behind by Washington policymakers.
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This kinda went under the radar in the year-end crush, but congrats to the @SaveStandard folks who successfully defeated Marco Rubio time. Can’t imagine him getting another sneak attack through the Senate like he did this year & I don’t see how it makes a comeback anytime soon.
