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Correcting Some Misconceptions About the Camp Plan
Read moreIn the wake of the release of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp's (R-MI) tax reform discussion draft, some misconceptions have been...
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Taking Stock of the Long-Term Fiscal Picture
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) isn't the only agency in town that does long-term projections. The Treasury Department annually releases the...
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Three Out of Four Doc Fix Plans Would Worsen the Debt
Read moreNote: This blog has been updated from its original posting to include the CBO score of the Senate Republican proposal. With the current "doc fix" set...
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Administration Does About-Face on Fate of ACA Cost-Sharing Subsidies
Read moreThe administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its report to Congress on Monday detailing the sequester’s impact on mandatory...
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Democratic SGR Offset Alternative Replaces One Gimmick With Another
Read moreEarlier today, we wrote that the the House Republican SGR bill would add to long-term deficits by using a timing gimmick to pay for permanent costs...
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House SGR Bill Increases Long-Term Deficits
Read moreWhile the relevant congressional committees recently reached agreement on a bipartisan plan to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula with...
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OMB Releases Long-Term Projections for the FY2015 Budget Proposal
Read moreOMB just published additional information, explanations, tables, and projections related to this year's budget -- known as the Analytical Perspectives...
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EITC Attracts Bipartisan Praise and Proposals
Read moreThe Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides low-income taxpayers with a refundable tax credit that increases up to a certain point along with...
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Gene Steuerle: A Camp-ground for Tax Reformers
Read moreGene Steuerle, Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, wrote a post on the Tax Policy Center's blog, TaxVox . It is...
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How Low Could Debt Go?
Read moreWe talked last week about several policies making their first appearance in the President's budget. What we didn't mention is that in addition to...
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Everything You Need to Know About the President's Budget, In 9 Charts
Read moreOn Tuesday, the President released his annual budget proposal, which details his priorities for FY 2015 as well as the coming decade. We published a...