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Tax Day 2016: Charts to Explain our Tax System
Read moreToday is Tax Day! Our partners at Fix the Debt have republished their annual chartbook to explain federal taxes – including who pays them, what they...
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Event Recap: McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative Recommendations Release
Read moreOn Wednesday, April 6, the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative released its final recommendations and book of policy proposals dedicated to...
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Halfway Through the Year, FY 2016 Leads FY 2015 in Deficits
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review for March recently, so we now have data for the first half of Fiscal Year (FY...
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Maya MacGuineas: Our Debt Problem Needs Action—Not Empty Promises: 5 questions for candidates on balancing the budget
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an article that appeared...
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Strengthening the Budget Resolution
Read moreOne of the key elements of the Congressional Budget Control and Impoundment Act of 1974 (Budget Act) was the provision to adopt a budget resolution...
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Fact Sheet: How much money could Medicare save by negotiating prescription drug prices?
Read moreHow much does Medicare Part D cost? Medicare Part D, which covers prescription drugs for the elderly, spent $62 billion last calendar year. With...
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The Obama Administration Moves on Business Tax Changes
Read moreThe topic of tax reform made the news on Monday as the Obama Administration simultaneously took regulatory steps to further limit corporate inversions...
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FAA Bill Should Not Turn Into an April Christmas Tree
Read moreUpdate: The Congressional Budget Office has released its score of the Senate FAA bill, estimating that it would reduce ten-year deficits by a small...
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Is Sustained 5 Percent Annual Growth Possible?
Read moreSince faster economic growth would represent a boon for wages and the fiscal situation, a number of Presidential candidates have been promising or...
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Blahous Tells it Like it is with Social Security
Read moreVoters say they want a candidate that “tells them like it is,” but as Social Security Trustee Charles Blahous describes, that may mean facing...
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Interest Spending Looms Large in the Next Decade
Read moreIn a recent blog post on The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire, director of Brookings Institution's Hutchins Center David Wessel outlines a major...