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Op-Ed: Five Myths About the ‘Fiscal Cliff’
Read moreWashington Post | November 16, 2012 At the end of the year, the country faces an abrupt series of broad tax increases and blunt cuts to most federal...
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Weinstein Proposes Cut-to-Invest Commission to Finance Infrastructure
Read moreA new report by CRFB and Moment of Truth Project consultant Paul Weinstein provides some guidance on how we could handle both our infrastructure...
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Alternative Revenue Raisers from High Earners
Read moreAs was the case two years ago, the 2001/2003 tax cuts will be a hot topic in the lame duck session. Democrats would like to extend the full tax cuts...
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Five Fiscal Plans for Consideration
Read moreToday, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation held a follow-up event to its 2011 Solutions Initiative, in which policy organizations presented plans to deal...
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Op-Ed: Going Off the Fiscal Cliff Is Good Policy—If You Like Unemployment
Read moreU.S. News and World Report | November 16, 2012 Don't even think about it! Falling off the fiscal cliff would be an economic disaster for the United...
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Softening the Blow on the Charitable Deduction
Read moreIn a new paper yesterday, we showed how policymakers could raise revenue exclusively from higher earners without increasing rates. Specifically, we...
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Report: Raising Revenue From High Earners Through Base Broadening
Read moreUpdate (12/12/12): Figure 1 has been corrected from an earlier version that was based on estimates that "stacked" the provision to tax dividends as...
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The Administrative Side of the Fiscal Cliff
Read moreYesterday's The Hill reported on a letter that acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller sent to the heads of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance...
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VP Meets Mayors in Hopes of Averting Fiscal Cliff
Read moreA couple of months ago, The United States Conference of Mayors, through a letter signed by a bipartisan group of 149 mayors across the country, called...
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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas November 14 2012
Read moreToday, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas writes in The Hill that with the election now over, politicians can and should turn their attention to what...
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Op-Ed: Now that the Election is Over, Let’s Fix the Country’s Debt Woes
Read moreThe Hill | November 14, 2012 The election is over, the ballots have been counted and the TV commercials approved by the various candidates are...
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Just Say No to the War Gimmick
Read moreLast week, a letter from six organizations--the AARP, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians, the American...