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Explaining Ryan's "Fiscal Dividend"
A new feature of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) FY 2015 budget is assumption of a "fiscal dividend," which reflects the economic...
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Not April Fool's: Senate Democrats Propose Lower Revenues than House Republicans
One of the recurring themes of recent budget debates has been partisan differences over the appropriate level of revenues, with Republicans rejecting...
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What's In and What's Out of the Extenders Bill
Update: Two days later, the Senate Finance Committee amended the legislation to extend nearly all of the provisions that had been allowed to expire...
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An Overview of the Ryan FY 2015 Budget
This morning, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released his FY 2015 budget proposal, "The Path to Prosperity." The budget reaches balance in...
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How Ryan Gets to Balance
With the medium-term economic and budget outlook weaker than last year, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) goal of reaching a balanced budget by...
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Spending and Revenue in the FY2015 Ryan Budget
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his FY 2015 budget today, outlining a series of changes that promise to reduce the debt as a...
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Bonus Depreciation Has Cost $220 Billion Since 2008
Last week, we made the case that an expired provision known as bonus depreciation be treated separately from the other tax extenders, both because it...
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Camp Makes More Fiscally Responsible Choices
In a letter to the Ways & Means Committee, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas states that Chairman Dave Camp's tax reform draft made the right choices in...
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SGR Continues to Slow Health Care Cost Growth
The Senate voted 64-35 today to approve a 12-month temporary “ doc fix” to push back the impending nearly 25 percent cut to Medicare physician...
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Pentagon White Paper Looks at Reforms to Military Retirement
A recent Department of Defense white paper takes a close look at what reforms to the military retirement system might look like, even though the...
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Sen. Murray Introduces Tax Cut Bill
Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced legislation yesterday to cut taxes for low- and middle-income workers in a few different...