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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...
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CRFB's Analysis of the FY 2015 President's Budget
The President's budget is here, and so is CRFB's analysis. Our paper breaks down the key budget metrics, the policies the President uses to get there...
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The President's FY2015 Budget
This morning, President Obama released his FY2015 budget, outlining the priorities for FY2015 and the coming decade. In this blog, we provide an...
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Deficit Reduction Proposals in the President's Last Budget
Tomorrow, President Obama will release his FY2015 budget, which will detail his visions and priorities for the upcoming years. In previous years, the...
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Judd Gregg: Some Light at the End of the Tunnel
Judd Gregg, former chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, wrote an op-ed in The Hill today. It is reposted here. After much ado and little done in...
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Look Out for Gimmicks!
The President is scheduled to release his budget tomorrow, which will detail his policy priorities for the coming decade. The budget typically details...
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Comparison Chart: How Camp's Tax Reform Plan Stacks Up
On Wednesday, House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp released a detailed tax reform discussion draft, which we summarize and analyze here. On its own...
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Double Counting: The Tax Reform Act and the Highway Trust Fund
The Tax Reform Act of 2014, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp's (R-MI) discussion draft, is a sizeable document touching almost all parts of the...
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How Camp's Discussion Draft Would Impact the Economy
Along with its analysis of the conventional revenue impacts ( summarized here by CRFB), the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) analyzed the potential...