Do Tax Rebates Work?

• Angry Bear:
  • Do Tax Rebates Work?
  • Stimulus Package? OK. But Deal with the Real Problems
  • What Fiscal Stimulus Needs to Look Like
• Associated Press:
  • Debate Over Getting Tax Rebates to the Poor, by Jeannine Aversa
  • Tax Rebates Could Boost Economy Quickly, by Martin Crutsinger
• Center on Budget & Policy Priorities:
  • Administration Stimulus Plan Fails Tests for Achieving Most Effective Stimulus, by Robert Greenstein
  • Another Misdiagnosis: Marginal Rate Reductions and Extensions of Tax Cuts Expiring in 2010 Not the Right Medicine for the Economy’s Current Ills, by Aviva Aron-Dine
• Citizens for Tax Justice:  Stimulus Must Go Towards Those Who Need It -- Or Else Congress Shouldn't Even Bother
• CNN Money:  Tax Rebates:  Where's Your Check, by Jeanne Sahadi
• Heritage Foundation:  Why Tax Rate Reductions Are More Stimulative Than Rebates: Lessons from 2001 and 2003, by Brian M. Riedl
• L.A. Times:  Bush Calls for Tax Rebates, by Maura Reynolds
• New York Times: Tax Rebate or Payment? A Policy Debate Begins, by Edmund L. Andrews
• NPR:  Weighing the Impact of a Possible Tax Rebate, by Adam Davidson
• Tax Foundation's Tax Policy Blog:
  • Economic Benefits of Fiscal Stimulus Likely to Be Small, by William Ahern
  • Did the 2001 Tax Rebate Checks Stimulate Consumption? The Economic Evidence, by Gerald Prante
• Tax Policy Center's TaxVox Blog:  Stimulus: Treat the Disease, Not the Symptoms, by Howard Gleckman
• A Taxing Matter:  Recession Possibility and Economic Stimulus Discussions, by Linda Beale
• Wall Street Journal:  Feel-Good Economics:  We've Tried Tax Rebates Before; They Don't Work (op-ed), by Bruce Bartlett