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Line Items: Botched Snap Edition
Washington Drops the Ball – To many federal budget watchers, the tax cut debate has been more frustrating than watching the Redskins play. The...
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Op-Ed: Tax Plan: Get Ready for a Big Debt Hangover
CNN Money | December 13, 2010 What happened!? Just two weeks ago we were celebrating the willingness of the political class -- or at least an...
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Quantifying the Cost of Waiting
The Congressional Budget Office made an unusual jump into the fiscal fray back in the summer, spelling out the specific harm that excessive long-term...
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So, How About That TARP?
Last week, we reported the good news from the Congressional Budget Office that the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) would cost $25 billion...
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House Passes Hybrid Spending Bill; Year-long Budget Disaster Nears Conclusion
Continuing its year-long lesson in "How Not To Budget," the House Wednesday passed legislation that would freeze overall Fiscal Year 2011...
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CRFB Board Member James T. Lynn Dies
James T. Lynn, a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget board and former budget director in the Ford administration died Dec. 6 in...
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CNN Money Exclusive: A debt fix to believe in
In her latest commentary on CNN Money, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas celebrates the bipartisan, super-majority vote of the Fiscal Commission and...
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Op-Ed: A Debt Fix to Believe In
CNN Money | December 6, 2010 It was a gut wrenching roller-coaster ride of a week for anyone who followed the deliberations and votes of the Bowles...
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The Center for American Progress Gets Specific
Today, the Center for American Progress released a plan to get specific on our growing deficits and debt. Or, rather, they've released five...
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‘Line’ Items: What Now? Edition
Commission Can’t Quite Commit – The President’s Fiscal Commission was able to produce a fiscal plan last week that garnered a bipartisan majority of...
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Setting the Record Straight on Spending Cuts and Taxes in the Fiscal Commission Plan
In a Heritage Foundation analysis of the President's Fiscal Commission's final plan, Brian Riedl argues that the recommendations have "too much taxes...