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Individual Income Tax Option Current Law Trump Plan Repeal and Replace the Personal and Dependent Exemption Eliminate personal exemptions $1.8...

We have an end-of-year tradition here at CRFB to take a look back at the prior year. In 2013, we wrote roughly 45 policy papers, budget updates, and...

Best wishes to all our readers. We look forward to bringing you coverage and analysis of important fiscal policy issues throughout next year. From all...

Recently, many policymakers and commentators have called for expanding Social Security benefits rather than slowing the program’s costs, suggesting...

That’s a Wrap – The House wrapped up its work for 2013 last week, passing the budget agreement worked out by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul...

Senate Democratic leadership is reportedly considering a last minute effort to extend 55 expiring tax provisions for another year, including a large...

The Murray-Ryan budget deal would mitigate some of the 2014 and 2015 sequester, but it actually still leaves the sequester’s cuts to mandatory...

In a move that has been discussed and anticipated for months, the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee announced that it would slightly...

CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook contains significant amounts of helpful data on Social Security. However, a lot of the data focus on just the outlays...

While the Final Four for the NCAA tournament is still almost four months away, another Final Four is taking place right now. Although it won't be held...

For years, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) resisted the temptation to talk in broad generalities about "wasteful government spending" and has instead been...

It has been one week since Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced they had reached a bipartisan budget agreement, which is now...