The Fiscal Reality Check
Joshua Rauh, Gregory Kearney, Benjamin Jaros, Daniel Heil, Matheus Cosso, Lincoln GerstnerTaxes, Spending, and the Bottom Line
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Unrealized Claims: Newsom Takes the Billionaire Tax Fight to the Federal Level
This week, California Governor Gavin Newsom declined to strike a deal with the SEIU health workers union and reaffirmed his opposition to their wealth tax ballot proposition. Today he explained the reasons for his opposition. It’s not that...
Don Newsom Refuses an Offer
This past week, the Billionaire Tax Now coalition sent Governor Newsom a letter offering to cut a deal: they’ll pull the 5 percent wealth tax from the November ballot if he backs a 2 percent rate instead. The coalition, led by the union tha...
Pension Cost Crowd-Out In America’s Classrooms: Evidence from 12,800 School Districts
Every few years, somewhere in America, voters are asked to dig deeper into their pockets to pay more for their public schools. A new sales tax here, or an extension of a property tax or parcel tax increase there. The typical pitch? This is...
Taxing Billionaires: A Bad Tradeoff
To the Editor:
Saez and Zucman write that Google founders Brin and Page are “making moves to leave the state” while also claiming it is “improbable” that a significant number of billionaires left in time. But the number need not be large....
Who Actually Loses Medicaid Under the OBBBA?
Much of the rhetoric surrounding the Medicaid eligibility requirements in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has been hyperbolic, casting the act’s work requirements as a draconian assault on the social safety net.
Last Spring, prior...
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George P. Shultz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Ormond Family Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Researcher at the Hoover Institution, Contributor to Liberty Lens.
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Economist interested in Public Finance, Taxation, and Economic History.
I'm a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution, researching health care, entitlement reform, and the federal budget.
Research Analyst at the Hoover Institution focusing on political economy and public economics. Supports fiscal, innovation, and regulatory research, and conducts independent research on special-interest politics, modeling rent-selling processes.
Student-athlete at Sacred Heart Prep(co 2027) Learning fast, but a long way to go.
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