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MY VIEW: David Walker June 2012
Read moreIn Tuesday’s The Hill, former Comptroller General David Walker calls for a process that would lead to a comprehensive debt reform deal in 2013. He...
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Senators Meet To Discuss Fiscal Cliff
Read moreEarlier this week, about a third of the Senate met to open a bipartisan discussion about comprehensive fiscal reform and the impending fiscal cliff...
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CBO Really, Really Makes the Case For Strict Pay-As-You-Go Budgeting
Read moreBased on CBO's Long Term Outlook, one could conclude solely based on the debt levels projected that either we were headed on a sustainable path, with...
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CBO's Long Term Spending and Revenues
Read moreThe CBO’s long-term projections offer an interesting look at future revenues and spending that show the stark implications of fiscal irresponsibility...
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Fiscal Fact Checker (Revisited): CBO's Record on Scoring the Affordable Care Act
Read moreCritics of CBO scoring like to cite past predictions that widely missed the mark. Sometimes, too, critics compare apples to oranges, and that is the...
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CBO's Long Term Outlook Has Arrived
Read moreThe much-anticipated CBO Long-Term Budget Outlook has been released this morning, projecting what the budget will look like over the next 75 years...
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CRFB Comments on the CBO Outlook
Read moreCRFB's newest paper dives into the set of projections underlying CBO's Long Term Budget Outlook. The report shows two very divergent paths for the...
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Line Items: Summertime Edition
Read moreHeat Is On – Summer had its traditional kick-off with Memorial Day weekend and the temperatures in DC rose to the occasion. If only the same could be...
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Report: CBO’s Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreCorrection: This paper originally stated that the Social Security trust fund is projected to be exhausted in 2033. The combined Social Security and...
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A Broken Tax Code
Read moreThe IRS's Spring 2012 Bulletin has a report, as required by law, by Justin Bryan reporting that 20,752 tax returns for people with adjusted gross...
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Bill Bradley Joins the Announcement Effect Club
Read moreAlready a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, former Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ) joined another exclusive club over the weekend: the Announcement...
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The Facts on Social Security Reform and Intergenerational Equity
Read moreUPDATED: The table now also includes average scheduled benefits in 2050. A scuffle between Social Security advocacy groups and Fiscal Commission co...