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Tax Day 2014: 10 Charts About Taxes
Read moreAn annotated version of this chartbook is available at Tax Day 2014: Ten Charts to Explain Our Federal Tax System
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CBO Continues to Show Unsustainable Debt Path
Read moreIn advance of the release of their analysis of the President's budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has updated their budget baseline for...
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Extending Tax Breaks Would Squander Fiscal Cliff Revenue
Read moreAfter allowing taxes to rise on the highest 1 percent of earners at the beginning of last year, many Democrats patted themselves on the back for...
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Health Reform's Coverage Costs Decline by $104 Billion
Read moreThe budget estimates in the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) baseline released today may have looked largely the same as in February's report...
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How the House-Passed Budget Tightens Defense Spending Caps
Read moreIn our discussion of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget, we talked about one area where the budget actually boosts spending...
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Bipartisan Policy Center Launches Long-Term Care Initiative
Read moreThe enormous cost of providing long-term care represents a major challenge for America's health system, and a major funding challenge for Medicaid...
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Comparing Debt Under the FY2015 Budgets
Read moreBudgets for the upcoming fiscal year have been released from the White House, House Republicans, House Democrats, the Republican Study Committee, the...
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Congressional Black Caucus Releases Budget
Read moreFollowing House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget markup last week and floor debate this week, the Congressional Black Caucus budget...
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Health Care Reforms in Chairman Paul Ryan's FY 2015 Budget
Read moreBudget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) FY 2015 budget achieves $3 trillion of its $5.1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next ten years...
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The Republican Study Committee's Alternative Budget
Read moreJust after House Democrats released their budget this week, the Republican Study Committee has come out with its own proposal to balance the budget in...
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“Long-Term SCORE Act” Introduced Today
Read moreCongressman Reid Ribble (R-WI) and Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI) introduced the Long-Term Studies of Comprehensive Outcomes and Returns for the...
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House Democrats Release Alternative FY 2015 Budget
Read moreThis blog has corrected the amount of Medicare savings in the budget. It previously said $50 billion, but that included the cost of repealing the...