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Clinton Proposes New Taxes to Offset New Proposals
In recent weeks, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has proposed a series of new tax breaks for small businesses and for parents in...
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Promises and Price Tags: An Update
Update: On November 2, 2016, we added an appendix to this update that summarizes the policies that the candidates have released. The next president...
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Gene Steuerle & Rudolph Penner: Restoring More Discretion to the Federal Budget
Dr. C. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and Dr. Rudolph G. Penner is an Institute...
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Sizing Up Social Security's Solvency Challenge
Social Security faces a large shortfall between scheduled benefits and dedicated revenue, and the program is currently on a path toward insolvency...
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Getting Real About Paying For Trump's Tax Plan
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump announced significant revisions to his tax plan that would reduce its cost by about half, a change CRFB...
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Explaining Donald Trump's Penny Plan for Non-Defense Spending
Much of the attention in Thursday's remarks by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has focused on his revised tax plan, but another new...
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Statement by Maya MacGuineas on Donald Trump's New Tax Plan
Donald Trump laid out the details of a new tax plan today. His campaign estimates it will cost $4.4 trillion, about half of the $9.25 trillion that we...
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Mitch Daniels: Washington’s Wake-Up Call
Mitch Daniels is the president of Purdue University, a former governor of Indiana, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, and a co...
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Expanding Medical Deduction Would Add to Debt
Congress is at it again - proposing to extend tax breaks without paying for them, and add new ones in the process. Today, the House voted to expand...
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Judd Gregg: Fixing the Budget
The primary reason that the Congressional budget process is not functioning is that it requires difficult decisions. This is not something Congress is...
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Three CRFB and Fix the Debt Board Members Testify Before Congress
On September 8, three CRFB and Fix the Debt board members – Mitch Daniels, Judd Gregg, and Alice Rivlin – testified before the Joint Economic...
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CRFB Board Member Alice Rivlin's Testimony on the Direction, Drivers, and Dangers of the Federal Debt
On September 8, 2016, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget board member and Brookings Institution senior fellow Alice Rivlin testified before...