Scholars Respond to the GOP Tax Plan

Congress is debating a major tax overhaul. Writing for the media and informing journalists, researchers explain what these tax changes could mean for ordinary Americans.

• Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University, "The Assault on Our Education System in the House and Senate Tax Plans Will Literally Kill," OpEd, HuffPost, December 5, 2017.
• Drew Halfmann, University of California, Davis, and Steve Lopez, Ohio State University, "The Republican Tax Plan is a Christmas Gift to Big Business and the Rich," OpEd, HuffPost, November 30, 2017.
• Robert Glover, University of Maine, "The Senate Tax Plan Would Harm Maine Communities," OpEd, Bangor Daily News, November 30, 2017.
• LeAnn Luna, University of Tennessee, “Tax Cuts Would Lead to Deeper, Painful Spending Cuts,” OpEd, The Commercial Appeal, November 29, 2017.
• Simon Haeder, West Virginia University, “Time for Congress to Stop Chipping Away at Health Care,” OpEd, Charleston Gazette-Mail, November 27, 2017.
• Jennifer Wriggins, University of Maine School of Law, “Why We Need the Individual Mandate (and Why Repealing It Would be a Disaster for the Middle Class),” OpEd, Bangor Daily News, November 24, 2017.
• Nora Gordon, Georgetown University, cited in “Elimination of Popular Tax Deduction Could Strap Public Schools,” by Martha Dalton, WABE, November 21, 2017.
• Robert Glover, University of Maine, interviewed on The Pulse 620 AM, November 20, 2017.
• Paul Shea, Bates College, “Republican Tax Plan an Intergenerational Rip-off,” OpEd, Lewiston Sun Journal, November 16, 2017.
• Amy Fried, University of Maine, “There is Nothing Populist about the GOP Tax Plan,” OpEd, Bangor Daily News, November 14, 2017.
• Carolyn Heinrich, Vanderbilt University, “House Tax Bill Harms Path to Economic Opportunity for All,” OpEd, The Hill, November 14, 2017.
• Marcus Anthony Hunter, University of California, Los Angeles, “GOP Tax Cuts Would Hammer California’s Poor,” OpEd, The Sacramento Bee, November 7, 2017.
• Anne Mayhew, University of Tennessee, “Budget Cuts Would Hurt More than Tax Cuts Would Help,” OpEd, The Commercial Appeal, November 3, 2017.
• Robert Glover, University of Maine, interviewed on The Pulse 620 AM, October 23, 2017.
• Robert Glover, University of Maine, “GOP Budget and Tax Plans Would Hurt Maine students, Working Class, and the Elderly,” OpEd, Bangor Daily News, October 17, 2017.