Our commentary series, Ideas from the Right: Conservative Approaches to Working Family Tax Credits, is designed to highlight new proposals from conservative policymakers and thought leaders on how to improve working family tax credits like the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit. Ideas from Right seeks to draw attention to the growing support for these credits at both the federal and state level while sparking discussion on the merits of different approaches and opportunities for consensus among conservatives and progressives.
Recent issues of Ideas from the Right:
Economist Glenn Hubbard on Reducing Income Inequality through the EITC, September 19, 2014
National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru on Increasing the Child Tax Credit, September 9, 2014
National Affairs Editor Yuval Levin on the Child Tax Credit and the Intergenerational Bargain, August 26, 2014
AEI Scholar Michael Strain on Increasing the EITC for Childless Workers, August 19, 2014
Utah State Representative Eric Hutchings on Enacting a Utah EITC, August 13, 2014
Our Commentary on Paul Ryan’s EITC Proposal, July 24, 2014
Brookings’s Ron Haskins on Lowering the EITC Age Requirement, July 23, 2014