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Rudolph Penner: Controlling the Deficit--The Debate Continues
Read moreCRFB board member Rudolph Penner recently co-authored a paper that is essentially a retrospective on the 2011 deficit debate. He and Urban Institute...
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MY VIEW: Gene Steuerle December 2011
Read moreOn Tuesday, December 5, President Obama went to Oswatomie, Kansas, where Teddy Roosevelt in 1910 had made one of his most famous speeches. Democrats...
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Marc Goldwein: How to Pay For the Payroll Tax Cut
Read moreIn an op-ed for The Atlantic, CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein made the case for offsetting the costs of the payroll tax cut, AMT patch, and...
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MY VIEW: Rudy Penner November 2011
Read moreCRFB board member Rudy Penner recently authored a CNN Money op-ed in which he writes that Congress has delayed the necessary fiscal adjustments for so...
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MY View: Maya MacGuineas November 2011
Read moreCRFB president Maya MacGuineas just wrote an essay featured in the Ripon Forum. She writes that the debate over whether the "debt crisis" or the "jobs...
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My View: Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles
Read moreToday in the Washington Post, Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs and CRFB Board Members Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles wrote an op-ed titled, "The Super...
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My View: David Stockman and Andy Stern
Read moreToday, CRFB board member and former budget director for Ronald Reagan, David Stockman, along with the former head of SEIU, Andy Stern, wrote an op-ed...
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MY VIEW: Bill Frenzel, Tim Penny, Jim Nussle, and Charlie Stenholm
Read moreToday in Politico, all four of the CRFB Co-Chairs penned an op-ed entitled, To Deficit Panel: Go Big, Long and Smart. Bill Frenzel, Tim Penny, Jim...
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MY VIEW: Vic Fazio
Read moreToday's Roll Call included an op-ed by former Representative and current CRFB board member Vic Fazio. He discusses the need for fiscal reform right...
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MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson October 2011
Read moreSunday's Washington Post featured an op-ed written by Fiscal Commission and Moment of Truth project co-chairs (and CRFB board members!) Erskine Bowles...
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MY VIEW: Paul Volcker
Read moreIn today's New York Times, CRFB board member and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker has an op-ed on the dangers of inflation. He...
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Bill Frenzel: Super committee can't tackle real debt problem
Read moreIn a commentary for CNN, CRFB co-chair Bill Frenzel lamented the small goal that the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (or the "super...