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President Releases $3.8 Trillion Budget
President Obama released a Fiscal 2011 budget request today that would spend some $3.834 trillion next year and projects a deficit of $1.267 trillion...
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TPC Takes the Tax Challenge with Income Tax Rates
We recently invited folks to take the spending challenge and show how they would close the budget gap without raising taxes (or alternatively, take...
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Obama Proposes Bank Fee to Recoup Bailout Costs
President Obama has just proposed a fee on financial firms, stating his commitment “to recover every single dime the American people are owed.” The...
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Moving the Tax Expiration Goal Posts
The President may choose to submit a budget in which he extends the Bush tax cuts only temporarily—say for two years, rather than permanently as was...
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Top Ten Tax Expenditures: JCT releases its annual report
Earlier this week the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the congressional group that provides cost estimates and tax expertise to Congress, issued...
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Obama Said to Support Tax on Health Insurance
According to the Associated Press, President Obama has encouraged House leaders to support the Senate's excise tax on high-cost insurance plans. As we...
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Tough Challenge Facing Obama Administration in Last Days of Budget Deliberations
Today’s New York Times article on the difficulty President Obama faces in keeping his promise about deficit reduction and tax cuts, Promise to Trim...
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Note to Citi: Get Your Fiscal House In Order!
The IRS has agreed to give up billions in tax money in exchange for Citigroup’s repurchase of $20 billion of its assets held by TARP. In a notice...
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Event Recap: Release of 'Red Ink Rising'
On December 14, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform hosted a public event at the National Press Club to announce the release of its report...
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Peterson-Pew in the Press
The Peterson-Pew Commission’s “Red Ink Rising” plan for American lawmakers has earned some black ink worldwide too since its release, not to mention...
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Red Ink Rising
In Red Ink Rising: A Call to Action to Stem the Mounting Federal Debt, The Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform calls on policy makers to...
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Five Steps to Cut the National Debt
Sphere | Dec. 10, 2009 Earlier this week, lawmakers confirmed that they will increase the national debt ceiling by as much as $1.8 trillion – raising...