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Tax Day 2015: 10 Charts and 1 Table About Taxes
Read moreSee some of these charts, with a more detailed explanation, at our blog Tax Day 2015: Charts to Explain Our Tax System
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SGR Bill Triggers Several Rule Violations
Read moreWe have described at length the fiscal irresponsibility of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) reform bill (H.R. 2) working its way through Congress --...
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PAYGO or No-Go: An Easy Way for Congress to Improve the SGR Bill
Read moreThere's a simple way to make the $141 billion House-passed Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) bill more fiscally responsible: don't exempt it from...
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Senate Budget Takes Issue with CHIMPs
Read moreThe Senate budget by Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) contains an important provision to limit a gimmick often used to increase spending using phony savings...
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Halfway Point of FY 2015 Shows Higher Deficit than FY 2014
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its Monthly Budget Review for March, rounding out the first half of Fiscal Year 2015. The report...
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Health Care Policies in the President's Budget
Read moreLawmakers often lament the difficulty of reforming Medicare and other health care programs, but the difficulty is not a lack of viable options. One...
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Congressional Black Caucus Proposes Alternative Budget
Read moreThe Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has released an alternative budget proposal highlighting their policy goals and preferred fiscal path for the...
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Republican Study Committee Publishes Alternative Budget
Read moreThe Republican Study Committee (RSC) has released an alternative budget proposal that outlines their vision for the country’s fiscal future. Their...
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Comparing the Major Budgets and Updated Simpson-Bowles
Read moreWe've already provided topline comparisons of the budget metrics in the FY 2016 Congressional budgets and the President's budget, showing that most of...
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Rep. Mulvaney: "The Republican Budget Is a Deficit Bust"
Read moreRep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) wrote a commentary published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday in which he decried the recently-passed budgets in the...