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CBO Estimates TCJA Extensions Could Cost Up to $2.7 Trillion
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) latest baseline spells out what the federal budget will look like under current law, but also estimates the...
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Senate Retirement Bill Would Cost $84 Billion Without Gimmicks
The Senate Finance Committee recently advanced the Enhancing American Retirement Now (EARN) Act, a bill designed to encourage private retirement...
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Presentation: Can Carbon Taxes Fund Climate Investments?
On June 13, 2022, Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget gave a presentation to attendees of the 2022 Citizens’ Climate Lobby...
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Event Recap: Fiscal Solutions to Climate Change
On May 17, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted an event on the "Fiscal Solutions to Climate Change." The virtual event featured a...
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Can a Carbon Tax Fund Climate Investments?
Though the Senate will not consider the House-passed Build Back Better Act (BBB), there has been some discussion of reviving the legislation’s climate...
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Deficit Reduction Through Reconciliation Would Be Great News
Policymakers are apparently considering developing a new reconciliation package that would focus in part on deficit reduction. The following is a...
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Tax Experts Urge Congress To Fix IRS Backlog And Reduce The Tax Gap
Today, a diverse group of former tax officials and policy experts sent a letter to the leadership of the Appropriations Committees urging them to...
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Maya MacGuineas: Say no to a gas tax holiday
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Gas Tax Holiday Would Take A Wrong Turn
The White House and some in Congress are reportedly considering suspending the 18.3 cent federal gas tax for the remainder of 2022. The Committee for...
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Gas Tax Holiday Would Cost $20 Billion
This week, a group of senators introduced legislation to suspend the federal gas tax through December 2022 amid rising inflation. We estimate the...
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Policymakers Shouldn't Weaken Build Back Better Surtax
To help finance new spending and tax breaks, the House-passed Build Back Better Act (and the Senate Finance Committee’s version) includes a high...
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Addressing Tax Expenditures Could Raise Substantial Revenue
While the House and Senate each has put forth its own version of the Build Back Better Act reconciliation legislation, the offsets that will be...