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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...
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Should Tax Reform 'Go Long'?
Read moreGo long or go prudent? These are the competing views of tax reform, according to Howard Gleckman in a Tax Policy Center blog post. He sums up the...
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Dynamic Scoring Explained
Read moreWhat is dynamic scoring? How are legislative proposals currently scored? CRFB's latest policy paper details the process and methods that the...
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Report: Understanding Dynamic Scoring
Read moreDownload a 2-page summary of this document, published December 2014.