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Fact Sheet: How Much Can the Economy Grow?
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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Will Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Interest Take up 83% of Spending in Five Years?
Read moreDuring the February 25 Republican presidential debate, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said: I want to go back to this question you asked about the debt. This...
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Adding Up Senator Cruz's Campaign Proposals So Far
Read moreUpdate, 3/8/16: Since this analysis was posted, the Tax Policy Center added an additional policy of Sen. Cruz’s tax plan to their analysis that...
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Additional Offsets for Senator Sanders's Health Plan
Read moreThe Sanders campaign has listed additional offsets on their website to pay for the "Medicare-for-all" health plan – most significantly taxation of...
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Maya MacGuineas: The next president must campaign responsibly on fiscal issues
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an essay for the...
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David M. Walker: Transforming Federal Financial Reporting and Auditing
Read moreDavid M. Walker, former Comptroller General of the United States from 1998 to 2008 and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
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How Senator Ted Cruz Would Increase Defense Spending
Read moreLast week, Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) released a new plan to Rebuild America’s Military through a number of specific...
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Judd Gregg: Lessons from a coming recession
Read moreJudd Gregg, a former Republican senator from New Hampshire, served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee from 2005 to 2007 and ranking member...
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Pathway to a Responsible Federal Budget
Read moreToday, the independent Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) released a set of principles for the fiscal year 2017 budget resolution...
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Senator Ted Cruz's Tax Reform Plan
Read moreRepublican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has a “Simple Flat Tax Plan” that would dramatically overhaul and simplify the current tax...
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