2012 Election
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Breaking Down the Proposals in the President's FY 2025 Budget
The Biden Administration recently released the President's Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget, outlining President Biden's tax and spending priorities for...
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Build Back Better for Less: Two Illustrative Packages
Note: We have published a chartbook to accompany this paper. Policymakers are apparently now targeting $1.5 trillion to $2.3 trillion of gross...
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Line Items: Election Edition
Decision Time – Election Day is tomorrow and the stakes are high. Not only is control of the White House and Congress at stake, but the election will...
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Line Items: Debate Edition
Up for Debate – Election 2012 is entering the final stretch and it is still up for grabs. The presidential contest has been marked more by missteps...
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More Analysis of Gov. Romney's Deductions Cap
After we analyzed a part of it two weeks ago, Governor Mitt Romney's tax plan is back in the news, with a proposed deduction cap as the subject of a...
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Revisiting Our Live Fact-Checking of the Second Presidential Debate
As with the previous two debates (one presidential and one vice presidential), we will take an opportunity to go back and fact check some statements...
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Fact Checking The Debates: Round III
Tonight at 9 PM on the grounds of Hofstra University is the second presidential debate and the only debate with a town hall format. This will allow...
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MY VIEW: Tim Penny October 2012
Former Congressman and CRFB Board Member Tim Penny (D-MN) writes in today's The Hill that even with both parties laying out different plans this...
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Expanding on Our Live Fact-Checking
After live fact-checking the vice presidential debate on Twitter, we will take some time to go back and expand on some of our fact-checking and...
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Fact Checking the Debates: Round 2
Vice President Joe Biden and Representive Paul Ryan (R-WI) will take the stage in Kentucky tonight at 9:00 PM E.T. in the Vice Presidential Debate. In...
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Fiscal Background for Tonight's Debate
Tonight at 9 PM in Kentucky will be the first and only vice presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden and candidate Paul Ryan. If this...
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MY VIEW: Eugene Steuerle October 2012
Eugene Steuerle has a tongue-in-cheek post in his "The Government We Deserve" blog on why Americans should choose him as President after last night's...