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OMB Releases Long-Term Projections for the FY2015 Budget Proposal
OMB just published additional information, explanations, tables, and projections related to this year's budget -- known as the Analytical Perspectives...
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EITC Attracts Bipartisan Praise and Proposals
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides low-income taxpayers with a refundable tax credit that increases up to a certain point along with...
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Gene Steuerle: A Camp-ground for Tax Reformers
Gene Steuerle, Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, wrote a post on the Tax Policy Center's blog, TaxVox . It is...
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How Low Could Debt Go?
We talked last week about several policies making their first appearance in the President's budget. What we didn't mention is that in addition to...
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Everything You Need to Know About the President's Budget, In 9 Charts
On Tuesday, the President released his annual budget proposal, which details his priorities for FY 2015 as well as the coming decade. We published a...
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How the President's Budget Deals with the Sequester
On Tuesday, the President released his budget, detailing his priorities for the upcoming year and beyond. Facing declining federal investment, the...
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In Expressing Concerns over CBO's Role, Zachary Karabell Actually Makes a Strong Case For CBO's Role
In a Washington Post article last weekend, Zachary Karabell takes issue with the importance placed on CBO scoring of legislation, arguing that the...
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What's New in the President's Budget?
With the release of the FY 2015 President's budget, the Obama Administration has now presented six annual budget plans (and an additional proposal to...
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Chartbook: The President's FY 2015 Budget
A blog post containing more detailed descriptions of many of these charts is available at Everything You Need to Know About the President's Budget, In...
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Line Items: After the Party Edition
Stumbling Back Home – Budget Day and Fat Tuesday collided this week as the White House unveiled its $3.9 trillion Fiscal Year 2015 budget request on...
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The Costs of Senator Mike Lee's Tax Reform
On Tuesday, the Tax Policy Center (TPC) released an estimate of Senator Mike Lee's Family Fairness and Opportunity Tax Reform Act. We first described...
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The President's Budget Puts the Debt on a Downward Path? Not So Fast...
OMB's projections for the President's FY2015 budget show the debt falling from a post-WWII record next year of nearly 75 percent of GDP down to 69...