Natasha Sarin
American economist and law professor at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management, president of the Budget Lab at Yale and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times; earlier counselor for economic policy to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and a Washington Post columnist.
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Their words(And btw the lack of that is likely part of why fertility rates falling to record lows).
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Costly care for two-earner couples prices families outside the top out of having children.
Their wordsMy pet theory is that it is related to rise of two-earner couples: Life isn't built for this crowd being parents (certainly not of 3 kids!) w/o complex and increasingly costly care infrastructure. So people who aren't in the top are priced out.
- 5 months earlier
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Tax policy should raise revenue rather than hand out targeted tax breaks to one group after another.
Their wordsI love Oprah but am not a fan of Oprah-style tax policy: "Tipped workers, YOU get a tax break! Teachers, YOU get a tax break! Overtime workers, YOU get a tax break!"
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Their wordsRather than modernizing the IRS for the 21st century, we are going backward.
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsIn every regard, it is a mistake: It grows deficits but shrinks the economy, makes gun silencers more available but healthy food less so.
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Their wordsThis is a bonker bananas statement that reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how the IRS works and flies in the face of the vast empirical evidence that shows dollars spent on tax enforcement activities have huge returns.
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Ending the IRS Direct File program was terrible news; the only winners are high-cost tax preparers.
Their wordsThis is terrible, terrible, terrible news for the American people and the tax system. The only winners are high-cost tax preparers.
- 2 months earlier
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Our reading
The executive has no legitimate power to refuse to spend funds Congress has appropriated.
Their wordsEg it is not within the executive's legitimate power to refuse to spend funds Congress has appropriated.