Biography
Hunter Blair joined EPI in 2016 as a budget analyst, in which capacity he researches tax, budget, and infrastructure policy. He attended New York University, where he majored in math and economics. Blair received his master’s in economics from Cornell University.
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It’s not trickling down: New data provides no evidence that the TCJA is working as its proponents claimed it would
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Detailed estimates for policies in EPI’s ‘Budget for Shared Prosperity’
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EPI’s model federal budget and tax plan: How we can raise the revenues needed to provide universal health care, strengthen safety nets, and shore up public investment
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It’s Tax Day again, and there’s still no reason to believe the Republicans’ corporate tax cuts are doing anything for working people
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Progressive tax reform requires a healthy IRS
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Heading into the midterms, there’s still no evidence that the TCJA is working as promised
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Locking in further regressive tax cuts would just make the TCJA worse
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Data continues to show little evidence that tax cuts are trickling down to typical workers, and now House Republicans want a do-over
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Last week’s GDP data shows there’s still no reason to think the TCJA’s corporate rate cuts are trickling down to workers
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‘The People’s Budget’: Analysis of the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget for fiscal year 2019
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The likely economic effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA): Higher incomes for the top, no discernible effect on wage growth for typical American workers
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The Trump administration doubles down in the Wall Street Journal on why trickle-down really does work
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For Tax Day, a reminder that economic arguments for the GOP tax plan have no theoretical basis
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The Trump tax cuts should be repealed, not made even worse by making individual tax cuts permanent
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A balanced budget amendment would be extraordinarily dangerous for the economy
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The Trump administration’s infrastructure plan remains empty talk and will be paid for by cuts to programs that help working people
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Why economics tells us that crediting the TCJA for wage increases is just PR
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The TCJA, combined with a cynical PR campaign from the GOP and the corporate world, could hit American families hard in the 2019 tax season
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The arguments supporting corporate tax cuts are wrong, and territorial taxation will make things worse
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If corporate rate cuts don’t trickle down, the House tax plan will raise taxes on moderate-income households too
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Senate Republican tax bill gives the top 1 percent of households a $32,500 tax cut; Bottom 20 percent will pay $10 more
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Why the Republican tax plans do nothing to help genuine small businesses
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Don’t believe the news of a new “top rate” in the forthcoming Republican tax plan: Their enormous “pass-through” loophole makes it largely irrelevant
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49 percent of the income Republicans claim as “small business” already goes to the top 1 percent
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Common tax ‘reform’ questions, answered: Why tax cuts for high-income households and corporations won’t help working families
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Republicans’ tax plan gives the top 1 percent of households a $207,000 tax cut; Bottom 20 percent get $50
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A leopard can’t change its spots: Newest Republican tax framework is what we knew it always would be—tax cuts for the rich.
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Graham-Cassidy: Maybe the worst Republican health proposal yet
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What is the ideal mix of federal, state, and local government investment in infrastructure?
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House Speaker Paul Ryan gets innovative in spreading misleading international tax comparisons