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MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles March 30 2012
Despite all the political gridlock and other developments that have people worried about our fiscal future, Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles...
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MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles March 23 2012
In a blog post entitled "Don't Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good" on the Committee for Economic Development's new blog Back in the Black...
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David Walker: Presidential Candidates’ Budget Plans Not Feasible
In an op-ed in Roll Call, David Walker lamented the lack of a "feasible" debt plan among the Presidential candidates, including President Obama. While...
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Tim Penny: Presidential Candidates Must Address our Debt
Note: This op-ed was originally published in The Hill. After a year in which the country was on the verge of declaring bankruptcy and the federal...
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Rudolph Penner: Can Tax Reform Save the U.S. Economy?
Were it not for the growth in spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, the United States wouldn't have much of a budget problem. The two...
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Rudolph Penner: Controlling the Deficit--The Debate Continues
CRFB board member Rudolph Penner recently co-authored a paper that is essentially a retrospective on the 2011 deficit debate. He and Urban Institute...
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MY VIEW: Gene Steuerle December 2011
On Tuesday, December 5, President Obama went to Oswatomie, Kansas, where Teddy Roosevelt in 1910 had made one of his most famous speeches. Democrats...
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Marc Goldwein: How to Pay For the Payroll Tax Cut
In an op-ed for The Atlantic, CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein made the case for offsetting the costs of the payroll tax cut, AMT patch, and...
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MY VIEW: Rudy Penner November 2011
CRFB board member Rudy Penner recently authored a CNN Money op-ed in which he writes that Congress has delayed the necessary fiscal adjustments for so...
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MY View: Maya MacGuineas November 2011
CRFB president Maya MacGuineas just wrote an essay featured in the Ripon Forum. She writes that the debate over whether the "debt crisis" or the "jobs...
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My View: Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles
Today in the Washington Post, Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs and CRFB Board Members Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles wrote an op-ed titled, "The Super...
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My View: David Stockman and Andy Stern
Today, CRFB board member and former budget director for Ronald Reagan, David Stockman, along with the former head of SEIU, Andy Stern, wrote an op-ed...