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Ways and Means Tax Package Could Cost Over $900 Billion Now
Last month, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a tax package that would revive and extend several tax extenders through 2020 and dramatically...
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Budget Deal Should Be Paid For
For Immediate Release Congressional leaders and the White House are in talks to raise the debt ceiling and statutory budget caps before the August...
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House Should Reject Another Deficit-Financed Tax Cut
For Immediate Release The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a permanent repeal of the "Cadillac tax" on high-cost health insurance...
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CBO's Long-Term Debt Outlook Improved Slightly from Last Year, Here's Why
In its latest Long-Term Budget Outlook, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects debt held by the public will rise from over 78 percent of Gross...
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Are There $1.6 Trillion in Tax Loopholes?
Former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden told the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention on June 28 that the tax code contains $1.6...
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New Pension Bill Adds Too Much to the Debt
The House Ways and Means Committee is considering pension reform legislation that CBO estimates will add $ 64 billion to deficits over the next ten...
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Gene Steuerle: Alice Rivlin: The George Washington of the Congressional Budget Office
Alice Rivlin, who passed away on May 14, was among the greatest public servants of the modern era.
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Saving Social Security and Medicare Could Help Fix the Debt
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Long-Term Budget Outlook shows debt rising continuously as a share of the economy over the next 30 years and...
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David Walker: It is time to confront fiscal failure
David Walker is a former Comptroller General of the United States (head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office) and past board member of the...
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Mike Murphy: The question to ask in 2020
Mike Murphy is the director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's FixUS initiative. He recently wrote an opinion piece for The Fulcrum...
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Senate Should Pass Budget Plan Before Defense Authorization
For Immediate Release The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote Thursday on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020 to authorize...
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Would a 10% VAT Pay for a $1,000 per Month UBI?
During the first 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate, candidate Andrew Yang claimed that his Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposal of $1,000...