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Is the U.S. the Highest Taxed Nation in the World?
Read moreAs he accepted the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump stated that “America is one of the highest-taxed countries in the world,” while...
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Scoring Clinton and Trump with Different Growth Assumptions
Read moreIn our analysis "Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election," we compared the fiscal effects of the policies proposed by presumptive...
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Chartbook: Promises and Price Tags
Read moreBelow is a new chartbook with the key figures and graphs from our paper, Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election.
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PBS NewsHour Piece on CRFB's Latest Analysis
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a column that appeared in PBS NewsHour's Making Sen$e. It is...
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Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election
Read moreNOTE: This is an old version of this analysis and contains out-of-date estimates with policies proposed through June 24, 2016. It has been updated...
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How Much Do Donald Trump's Tax Cuts for Millionaires Cost?
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently released a fact sheet on her campaign website that criticizes Republican presidential...
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Adding Up Senator Sanders's Campaign Proposals So Far
Read moreUPDATED: Previous versions of this analysis were published on April 7 and May 9, 2016. The analysis below, updated on May 19, incorporates the...
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Donald Trump's Treasury Buyback Plan
Read moreLast week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made waves in a CNBC interview when he seemed to indicate that he would seek to renegotiate...
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Adding Up Donald Trump's Campaign Proposals So Far
Read moreNOTE: This version of this analysis is now out of date. The most current version of the analysis can be found in our paper "Promises and Price Tags: A...
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Analysis of Donald Trump's Health Care Plan
Read moreRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently released a health care reform plan entitled “Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again.”
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Debt Will Rise Under the Next President
Read moreOur recent updates and analyses of the fiscal policies of Secretary Clinton, Senator Sanders, and Donald Trump show that debt would rise from today’s...
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Adding Up Secretary Clinton's Campaign Proposals So Far
Read moreNOTE: This version of this analysis is now out of date. The most current version of the analysis can be found in our paper "Promises and Price Tags: A...