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Spending and Revenue in the FY2015 Ryan Budget
Read moreHouse Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his FY 2015 budget today, outlining a series of changes that promise to reduce the debt as a...
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Bonus Depreciation Has Cost $220 Billion Since 2008
Read moreLast week, we made the case that an expired provision known as bonus depreciation be treated separately from the other tax extenders, both because it...
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Camp Makes More Fiscally Responsible Choices
Read moreIn a letter to the Ways & Means Committee, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas states that Chairman Dave Camp's tax reform draft made the right choices in...
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SGR Continues to Slow Health Care Cost Growth
Read moreThe Senate voted 64-35 today to approve a 12-month temporary “ doc fix” to push back the impending nearly 25 percent cut to Medicare physician...
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Pentagon White Paper Looks at Reforms to Military Retirement
Read moreA recent Department of Defense white paper takes a close look at what reforms to the military retirement system might look like, even though the...
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Sen. Murray Introduces Tax Cut Bill
Read moreSenate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced legislation yesterday to cut taxes for low- and middle-income workers in a few different...
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Gimmick in Doc Fix Patch Should Be Replaced with Real Savings
Read moreCongress is considering another 12-month doc fix, averting a 24 percent cut in Medicare physician payments scheduled for April 1. While the SGR patch...
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One-Year Doc Fix Emerges
Read more(Updated to incorporate new information from the Congressional Budget Office's score of the doc fix bill) In lieu of a permanent agreement and with...
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The Tax Break-Down: Tax Extenders
Read moreThis is the sixteenth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which analyzes and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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Administration Softens Sequester Impact on Health Reform Again
Read moreA new rule proposed by the administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would effectively eliminate the sequester for another...