Jared Walczak
@JaredWalczak
Vice President of State Projects at the Tax Foundation.
Apparently the Trump administration is, to great controversy, eliminating the "sticky notes" park officials added to this Muir Woods sign in 2021 adding context like "Gifford Pinchot was racist" to a timeline about Muir Woods. Those who worked on the revised signs are protesting…
I saw a group of picnickers wearing "Vegan Runners" shirts, and I suppose that the only group more eager than runners to advertise their identity would be vegan runners.
Spending time with friends, hitting the gym, and going for a walk are not distractions or dodges. Someone might need therapy in addition to coffee with friends. But it's emotionally healthy and should be encouraged, not dismissed as a dodge.
The U.S. produced about $19 billion worth of ice cream domestically last year, whereas imports were less than $300 million and net imports were $41 million. Is it really a crisis if people occasionally buy Häagen-Dazs?
SCOOP: America had a trade surplus in ice cream in 2020 under President Trump's leadership, but that surplus turned into a trade deficit of $40.6 million under President Biden's watch. @POTUS' trade actions are lowering trade barriers and increasing market access for American…
When I was younger, my dream was to gain admittance into one of those buildings for people who think. Since I've been entrusted with an office in one of those buildings, I strive every day to show myself worthy of it by doing a little bit of a combination of thinking.
Couldn't have said it better myself: “And you know he has these think tanks. And they build buildings for people that think. And it’s really not thinking. It’s a little bit of a combination of thinking. It’s something you sort of have or you don’t have.”
Has anyone tried to independently calculate the state impacts of the Medicaid provider tax curtailment under the OBBBA? I've been trying it and can't come even remotely close to matching the CBO's figures. I assume I'm doing something wrong, but can't sort it out. The provider…
States like Idaho and Montana shouldn't have taxed GILTI, but taxing its replacement, NCTI, is far worse. There's no time like the present for lawmakers to remove it from their tax codes. My guest piece with @MtnStatesPolicy:
In most respects, Idaho and Montana have been enthusiastic in their pursuit of tax competitiveness. But if there’s one area of tax policy on which they are worse than their peers, it’s in their incorporation of GILTI—the federal tax on Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income—into…
I was watching ChatGPT's "thought process" and it mused that it would have to "gently inform the user" that the requested task was too onerous and asked for the use of sources that did not exist. A minute later, it gave me exactly what I wanted.
Dear @pepsi: I'm sorry. It's my fault. I spent the weekend hiking and didn't drink my ordinary allotment of Diet Mountain Dews. I'll make it up to you the rest of the week.
An Erie city councilman seems to have confessed on camera during a public hearing to shooting a man in the head while in college and getting away with it through his family's mob connections, and there's not a single news story about it yet. reddit.com/r/Erie/s/7uWg5…
Nikki's podcast is called GeTtin' SALTy, so I took that as license to get salty about states incorporating NCTI into their own corporate tax codes.
In this episode of GeTtin' SALTy, host Nikki Dobay welcomes back Jared Walczak, Vice President of State Projects at the Tax Foundation, for a discussion of the recently passed federal tax legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Listen: gtlaw.com/en/insights/20…. @GTGlobalTax
Some notes on using ChatGPT for policy research: 1. Instruct ChatGPT to use the resources you would use. I only tell it to restrict its analysis to specific named resources when I want it to analyze text, because it's often helped surface new helpful resources for me, but I…
I glanced at my receipt at an airport fast food joint and saw that I had been given an "airport employee discount." I'm not sure why, though upon reflection, my suit and tie today make me look a bit like a United pilot. (I offered to pay the difference. They declined.)