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Brookings' Pathway to Reforming the Budget
Read moreIn a new and informative series on Reforming the Budget, the Brookings Institution looked at challenges facing the budget process and proposed...
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Camp Proposes Draft to Cut Rates and Trim Deductions
Read moreIn a widely anticipated move in the tax world, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) has released a comprehensive tax reform discussion draft...
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Defense Department Trims Personnel Costs and Other Programs To Live Within Means
Read moreIn a somewhat atypical move, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel previewed in a speech yesterday the Department of Defense's (DoD's) budget request for...
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Revenue Impacts of Camp's Tax Reform Proposal
Read moreEarlier today, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the Tax Reform Act of 2014, which would drastically restructure the U.S. tax...
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CRFB Launches Tax Reform Resource Page
Read moreTomorrow, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) is expected to release his comprehensive tax reform proposal after a series of discussion...
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Drawing a Realistic Baseline
Read moreCBO's recent budget projections show a much deteriorated budget outlook, with debt now rising faster over the coming decade than previously...
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Line Items: Ceremonial Closing Edition
Read moreClosing the Ceremony – The Winter Olympics ended in Sochi, Russia on Sunday with the closing ceremony. The eye-catching spectacle put an exclamation...
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Camp to Release Tax Reform Draft Next Week
Read moreNext week, House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp is set to release a draft of a bill to revamp the U.S. tax code, according to press reports. It was...
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Op-Ed: Tax Reform: A Real Possibility and Necessary
Read morePioneer Press | July 8, 2013 July may be the most important month for tax reform since 1986 -- the last time the tax code was considerably altered. A...
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Chained CPI Not in President's FY2015 Budget
Read moreToday, the White House announced that the President will not propose adopting the “chained CPI” in the President’s Budget this year, as he did last...
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Entitlement Reform Should Be in the President's Budget
Read moreLast Friday, 16 Senate Democrats sent a letter to President Obama, but it wasn't for Valentine's Day. Rather, the letter warned the President against...
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Why Did the Deficit Drop in 2014? Part 2
Read moreAt the beginning of the month, the Congressional Budget Office released its annual report on the federal budget, which showed that the deficit is...