Overview

Terry Neese

National Center for Policy Analysis Distinguished Fellow

Terry is leading the effort for the NCPA's latest initiative, Policies That Work For Americans Who Work, addressing policy reform to benefit women, families and small businesses using:

• A fairer tax system for two-earner couples
• A flexible employee benefit system addressing topics such as unneeded, duplicate benefits, or the option of accepting lower wages in return for more valuable health and retirement benefits.
• Flexibility in labor law allowing for alternatives to the traditional 40-hour work week.
• A level playing field under tax law, so that tax relief is equal for small business owners who make responsible saving choices as it is for those who obtain these benefits at a large employer.
• Portable health & retirement benefits.
• Earnings sharing (where payroll tax contributions are divided like community property) applied to a new system of personal retirement accounts.
• Taxation of Social Security benefits so that an extra family member working does not raise marginal tax rates
• Protection of assets by buying long-term care insurance, using Medicaid only for catastrophic costs.
• Allowing small businesses to combine buying power across state lines to purchase healthinsurance