Hunter Blair
Budget Analyst
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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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The Trump tax cuts should be repealed, not made even worse by making individual tax cuts permanent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
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Corporations pay between 13 and 19 percent in federal taxes—far less than the 35 percent statutory tax rate
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U.S. corporations pay a far lower effective tax rate than the statutory rate would indicate—and a recent CBO study doesn’t actually contradict this
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Trump’s infrastructure plans are empty promises not backed by money
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As the Trump administration kicks off “infrastructure week”, remember that its recent budget is an absolute disaster for public investment
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Trump’s budget tried to side-step taxes. Today’s Ways and Means hearing with Treasury Secretary Mnuchin should not.
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Trump budget proposal is a potential jobs-killer, imposing a major fiscal drag that would radically slow job growth in coming years
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Letter to the House Committee on Ways and Mean concerning tax reform
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‘Competitive’ distractions: Cutting corporate tax rates will not create jobs or boost incomes for the vast majority of American families
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‘The People’s Budget’: Analysis of the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget for fiscal year 2018
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Trump’s opening bid for tax reform is more tax cuts and loopholes for the rich
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Likeliest outcome of tax reform is a deficit-financed tax cut for the rich that will expire in a decade