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Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles: A Moment of Truth for our Country’s Financial Future
Alan Simpson is a former Republican senator from Wyoming. Erskine Bowles served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 1998. They co...
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Maya MacGuineas: Trump Tax Cuts Could Cost Your Kids Dearly
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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Bill Hoagland: A Disappearing Budget Process Unhelpful for Fiscal Responsibility
G. William Hoagland is Senior Vice President at the Bipartisan Policy Center and member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He...
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Maya MacGuineas: Congress, Dump the Budget Gimmicks – We Need Real Reform
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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Maya MacGuineas: Missed Opportunity to Use Health Care, Tax Policies to Stop Debt Growth
Headlines were made recently when the gross national debt topped $20 trillion for the first time. You would think this ominous milestone might give...
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Gene Steuerle: How To Design Tax Reform: 8 Lessons From 1986
Saying that one is for tax reform doesn’t provide much information about what is being sought or how to do it.
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Maya MacGuineas: Revenue Neutral, Gimmick Free Tax Reform Is Hard -- And Worth It
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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Maya MacGuineas: $20 Trillion in National Debt Is a Big Deal
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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Maya MacGuineas: Don’t Get Rid of the Debt Ceiling. Reform It.
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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Ed Rendell and Judd Gregg: Playing Politics with the Nation’s Financial Future
Ed Rendell and Judd Gregg are co-chairs of the Fix the Debt Campaign, a project of CRFB. Judd Gregg, a former Republican senator from New Hampshire...
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Marc Goldwein: National Debt: Yes, Rising Annual Deficits Threaten the U.S. Economy
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a column...
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Maya MacGuineas: GOP Considering a Half-Trillion-Dollar Tax-Reform Trick
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...