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Will Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Interest Take up 83% of Spending in Five Years?
Read moreDuring the February 25 Republican presidential debate, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said: I want to go back to this question you asked about the debt. This...
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Adding Up Senator Cruz's Campaign Proposals So Far
Read moreUpdate, 3/8/16: Since this analysis was posted, the Tax Policy Center added an additional policy of Sen. Cruz’s tax plan to their analysis that...
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Additional Offsets for Senator Sanders's Health Plan
Read moreThe Sanders campaign has listed additional offsets on their website to pay for the "Medicare-for-all" health plan – most significantly taxation of...
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How Senator Ted Cruz Would Increase Defense Spending
Read moreLast week, Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) released a new plan to Rebuild America’s Military through a number of specific...
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Senator Ted Cruz's Tax Reform Plan
Read moreRepublican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has a “Simple Flat Tax Plan” that would dramatically overhaul and simplify the current tax...
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Would Sen. Sanders Increase the Government by 40%?
Read moreDuring the Democratic debate on February 11th, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Senator Bernie Sanders’s plans would increase the...
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Would Reducing Fraud Make Social Security Solvent?
Read moreAt the 7th Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump stated that he would “save Social Security” by reducing its “tremendous waste, fraud, and...
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Adding Up Donald Trump's Campaign Proposals So Far
Read moreNOTE: This is an archive version of this analysis and contains out-of-date estimates. The most up-to-date analysis can be found here: https:/...
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Clinton's Taxes on the Wealthy, Explained
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has proposed several new taxes that would raise taxes on the wealthy...
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Analysis of the Sanders Single-Payer Offsets
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released the outline of a plan to move to a single-payer health care system in the U.S...
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How Much Would Sen. Bernie Sanders's Single-Payer Plan Cost?
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently released arguably his most ambitious policy proposal yet, to move to a single...
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Does the U.S. Spend $80 Billion a Year on Incarceration?
Read moreAt the third Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said "We are spending $80 billion a year locking up our fellow Americans," using the...