The Urban Institute has a new report on the charitable deduction (co-authored by CRFB board member Eugene Steuerle) that details some options for...

A POLITICO article reports on an effort underway at the Senate Finance Committee to negotiate an extension of the "tax extenders," narrow temporary...

CBO's latest report details the full effects on the federal budget of raising the federal excise tax on cigarettes. As they would when analyzing any...

Although budget projections had already been showing this, we now have more definitive numbers from the Treasury Department that this year's deficit...

Actuaries at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services have published a new report detailing their projections for health care spending growth...

With the release of CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook last week, CRFB has updated the Realistic Baseline to incorporate elements of CBO's long-term...

Undead Ends – Recent reports of disturbing behavior have raised the specter of a zombie apocalypse, where the undead overrun civilization. Flesh/brain...

The Tax Policy Center has released a new table showing the revenue impact of options to reform the mortgage interest deduction. The options shown all...

In our recent analysis of CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook, we elaborated on how the overall federal debt is on an unsustainable path. Just twelve years...

It is encouraging to see the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures hold a series of hearings on the many temporary tax...

CBO's Long Term Outlook includes a number of variables on how the budget would look over the next 75 years. But they also show how the economy would...