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MY VIEW: Rudy Penner February 2013
In a Tax Policy Center blog, Urban Institute fellow and former CBO director Rudy Penner makes the case for going beyond the amount of deficit...
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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas & Thomas Rippon
Today in an op-ed in The Patriot News, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas and Pennsylvania Fix the Debt Co-chair Thomas Rippon call for bipartisan...
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MY VIEW: Gene Steuerle January 2013
Urban Institute Fellow and CRFB board member Gene Steuerle suggests that the greatest challenge for today's lawmakers is not action, but realizing...
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MY VIEW: Jim Kolbe January 2013
Yesterday, CRFB board member and former Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) illustrated in The Arizona Republic that only a package that includes substantial...
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MY VIEW: Alice Rivlin December 2012
Former CBO Director and CRFB Board Member cautioned political leaders in a op-ed in The Hill, that merely finding just enough savings to repeal the...
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MY VIEW: Michael Peterson
Michael Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, writes in Politico that much of the coverage on the fiscal cliff has missed...
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MY VIEW: David Walker December 2012
Former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker writes in today's Politico that not all of the attention should be on the upcoming fiscal cliff - we also...
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MY VIEW: Laura Tyson November 2012
Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair and CRFB Board Member Laura Tyson writes in The New York Times about the dual challenges of "Go Fast" to...
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Laura Tyson: Inside America's Tax Battle
Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair and CRFB Board Member Laura Tyson says that it has become clear that increased revenues are needed along...
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Bill Frenzel: Going Off the Fiscal Cliff Is Good Policy—If You Like Unemployment
Former Congressman and CRFB Board Member Bill Frenzel has some advice for the so-called " fiscal cliff divers": don't even think about it! Going off...
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Maya MacGuineas: Five myths about the 'fiscal cliff'
Not long after her appeal to national leaders to work towards a bipartisan compromise, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas dispels 5 common misconceptions...
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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas November 19 2012
Not long after her appeal to national leaders to work assiduously towards a bipartisan comprehensive debt-deal, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas makes...