NEW CATO VIDEO: Putting the House GOP’s $61 Billion Spending Cuts in Perspective

By: catoinstitute (Diary)  |  March 7th at 01:38 PM  | 

$61 billion sounds like a big spending cut, but we should put that number in perspective. In a short new video, based on a Cato@Liberty blog post by Cato budget analyst Tad DeHaven, producer and host of the Cato Daily Podcast (iTunes) Caleb Brown walks us through what a drop in the bucket this amount really is: Please consider sharing this video with your readers, colleagues, students, | Read More »

Obama’s Plan to Raise Tax Rates

By: catoinstitute (Diary)  |  September 16th at 12:08 AM  | 

By Chris Edwards President Obama wants to raise the top two individual income tax rates for 2011. The top rates will rise from 33% to 36% and from 35% to 39.6%, unless the president and Congress agree to extend the current rate structure. Before taking action on this issue, policymakers should consider the following facts and data. (All information is cited in my related congressional | Read More »