Universities (and other big employers) are Cutting Retirement Benefits. Tax Lawyers are Having Fits. What’s Going On?

This week brought a new round of announcements from universities, even very wealthy ones, that they would be cutting faculty and…

Reforming State Corporate Income Taxes Can Yield the States Billions

State Governments Should Now Consider Partial Wealth Tax Reforms

By David Gamage and Darien Shanske

The COVID-19 pandemic is precipitating severe fiscal crises for state and local governments. This is occurring as businesses throughout the country have shut…

States Should Borrow Rather than Make Brutal Cuts During a Recession and Pandemic

By Darien Shanske and David Gamage

In a world in which the level of government best suited to act (the federal government) is dysfunctional, subnational governments need to take extraordinary measures. Lest anything…