The Center on Budget and Pollicy Priorities has just released a comprehensive review of Bush's tax policy.

The Americans for a Fair Estate Tax coalition recently issued a statement of principles on estate tax reform.

See Estate Tax Principles for the statement; and see FairEstateTax.org for more information on the estate tax.

A new CBO study finds that unemployment insurance is important in maintianing family income after a job-loss, and "the program has succeeded in preventing temporary poverty for a significant fraction of long-term UI recipients."

The Senate Budget Committee has reported out a budget which includes includes $80.6 billion in tax cuts which would have reconciliation protection. Of this, around 3 billion is for repeal of the estate tax in 2009. The low cost figure is likely due to the fact that most of the revenue effects would take place outside of the 5 year budget window in 2010. The remaining $77 billion is used for the 3 "middle class" tax cuts - child credit, 10% bracket, and marriage penalty.