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With the "Buffett Rule" set to get a vote in the Senate next week, we felt it was a good time to take a more in-depth look at the proposed policy --...

Are you interested in working at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget? If so, we may have a position for you. CRFB is seeking to fill three...

Update: Charles Blahous has posted a response to his critics here . Charles Blahous, a Social Security and Medicare Trustee, has released a new report...

Tax Policy Center president Donald Marron has a brief in Tax Notes that shows that spending on tax expenditures are higher than the commonly reported...

In the latest post in his ongoing "The Government We Deserve" series, CRFB board member Eugene Steuerle stated that regardless of how the Supreme...

What the Bunny Left Behind – We’ve given up on giving things up for Lent, Passover will be passing, and the Easter Bunny has hopped into the pastel...

CBO's latest Monthly Budget Review for March gives us a look at how the federal budget looks compared to last year halfway through the fiscal year...

As readers of The Bottom Line and our releases will know, CRFB strives to compare as many plans as possible on a similar basis so that policymakers...

The IMF has a new report out called " Accounting Devices and Fiscal Illusions," a handy guide to different types of fiscal trickery that have been...

Via Wonkblog, Sarah Kliff reports on an initiative by nine medical specialty groups to identify procedures that they find to be either unnecessary or...

Following up on a project they did last year, the White House has released its 2011 Federal Taxpayer Receipt. This tool allows you to put in how much...

With a number of budget resolutions coming out, honest budgeting might be too much to ask for. As we took a look at the Republican (Ryan) and...