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Erskine Bowles and Al Simpson: Debt Solution Must Be Bipartisan
Read moreIn today's USA Today, Fix the Debt co-founders and Simpson-Bowles co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Al Simpson write that each party can't just have its...
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McCain Says Leave Everything on the Table
Read moreOn Bloomberg Government's "Capitol Gains" show, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) endorsed at least the Simpson-Bowles outline as the starting point for...
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Op-Ed: Debt Solution Must Be Bipartisan
Read moreUSA Today | September 21, 2012 In February of 2010, when we accepted the job as co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and...
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Where is the Estate Tax Heading?
Read morePOLITICO reported earlier in the week that the estate tax debate is re-emerging as the expiration of the 2001/2003/2010 tax cuts looms. The estate tax...
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Concord Coalition Honors the Brave 38
Read moreTonight, the Concord Coalition will present their annual Paul E. Tsongas Patriot Award to the Brave 38—the 22 Democratic and the 16 Republican...
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Fiscal Fact Checker: Simpson-Bowles Raises Revenue
Read moreToday on Bloomberg, Edward Lazear -- the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under former President George W. Bush -- talked about the...
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NPR Breaks Down the Fiscal Cliff
Read moreToday, NPR's Planet Money featured a helpful "three and a half graphic" breakdown of the fiscal cliff, relying on CRFB's figures. The piece breaks...
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Lessons from Canada
Read moreThe United States is not the only country in the world who has, or is, facing fiscal problems. Our neighbor to the north faced some severe fiscal...
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Quantifying the Effects of Uncertainty
Read moreWe have seen many lawmakers and business leaders claim that the fiscal cliff is holding back the recovery and leading to higher unemployment, and in...
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A Healthy Debate on the Medicare Age
Read moreA column in The Wall Street Journal today asks "Should the Eligibility Age for Medicare Be Raised?" Taking the " yes" side is CRFB president Maya...
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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas September 2012
Read moreCRFB President Maya MacGuineas writes in today's The Hill that as Congress returns home for another recess, there is plenty of evidence that...