Distributional analysis of prospective 2009 US individual income taxes: current law and the candidates’ tax plans

The purpose of this paper is to compare the distributional characteristics of two presidential candidates’ proposed reforms to the US federal individual income tax. Using an anonymous sample of tax return data from the Brookings-Urban Institute Tax Policy Center and the Center’s simulations of 2009 tax law and the two proposals, we compare the vertical and horizontal equity of the three individual income tax regimes. Surprisingly, there is very little difference among the three proposed individual income tax regimes in terms of vertical and horizontal equity. However, when the initial effective tax rate positions and economic incomes of each pair of taxpayers are compared to the new effective tax rate positions under the two proposals, we find that the Obama proposal makes the tax system more progressive than 2009 law. This change is much more pronounced than under the McCain proposal. On the other hand, when these initial positions are compared to the two proposals viz. a viz. horizontal equity, the McCain proposed tax system is more horizontally equitable than 2009 tax law, and more horizontally equitable than the Obama proposal is when compared to 2009 tax law.Tax equity; McCain tax plan; Obama tax plan

Building a house for the 21st century

Forecasting ; Gross domestic product

The U.S. auto outlook--a global perspective

Automobile industry and trade

Improving public education through strengthened local control

Education

The five song cycles for voice and piano by Benjamin Britten written specifically for Peter Pears: The effect of their relationship

Benjamin Britten composed five song cycles for voice and piano to be performed by his partner, tenor Peter Pears: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo , opus 22 (1940), The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, opus 35 (1945), Winter Words, opus 52 (1953), Sechs Holderlin Fragmente, opus 61 (1958), and Who Are These Children?, opus 84 (1969). These five cycles span almost the entire length of their personal relationship, the first having been composed the year they consummated their relationship in the United States, and the last seven years before the composer\u27s death. These compositions give insight into the way that Britten wrote for the man with whom he shared his life, especially in terms of the texts he chose to set, the way he organized those texts into a narrative, and the way he used his partner\u27s voice to express these texts.;This paper includes a brief biography of the two men, a discussion of the five cycles within the context of Britten\u27s compositional output, and examines each of the five cycles in terms of the selection of the text, the dramatic construction of each cycle, as well as the use of the voice in each song. When relevant to the discussion, matters of accompaniment, key, form, and other musical aspects of the songs are also discussed. The paper also includes a comprehensive bibliography of sources about Britten and Pears

Robert S. Strauss to \u27Members of Congress,\u27 14 July 1978

Copy typed memorandum dated 14 July 1978 from Robert S. Strauss to \u27Members of Congress,\u27 re: Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Attached: incoming Department of State telegram dated July 1978, re: Robert S. Strauss press conference; 3 pageshttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/joecorr_h/1035/thumbnail.jp

Robert S. Strauss to Senator James O. Eastland, 5 July 1978

Typed letter signed dated 5 July 1978 from Robert S. Strauss to Eastland, re: tariff reductions on ceramic tile in Multilateral Trade Negotiations.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joecorr_h/1034/thumbnail.jp

Robert S. Strauss to Senator James O. Eastland, 14 March 1978

Typed letter signed dated 14 March 1978 from Robert S. Strauss to Eastland, re: 31 January letter on soybean and soybean meal trade with European Community.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joecorr_h/1033/thumbnail.jp