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Op-Ed: Grand Budget Bargain? No, Congress Would Prefer To Fight
Brookings | July 8, 2013 Barring a miracle, budget bargains, either grand or petty, are not in the cards this year. The Congress would prefer to fight...
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Rivlin Warns More Work is Needed on Debt and Deficits
Former CBO director and CRFB board member Alice Rivlin was interviewed by the Fiscal Times Sunday on the state of our budget and economy. Rivlin...
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GAO Finds Low Effective Corporate Tax Rates
As the tax reform debate begins to heat up again, a new report released by the General Accountability Office (GAO) contributes some telling...
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New Estimates of Immigration Reform: What They Say
Both the Social Security Chief Actuary and the CBO have already weighed in on the Senate's immigration reform bill, showing that it would give a short...
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Op-Ed: The Baucus-Hatch “Blank Slate” Approach to Tax Reform Could Be Revolutionary
The Government We Deserve | July 3, 2013 No one quite knows what exactly Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin...
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What the Delay of the ACA's Employer Mandate Means for the Budget
Yesterday, the Obama administration announced the one-year delay of a key provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires coverage reporting and...
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Appropriations Update: Sequester Looms Large in the Process
The appropriations process is usually arduous, but this year may be even more so. The largest disagreement between the Senate and House, which is...
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American Public Supports Fiscally Responsible Corporate Tax Reform
Among developed countries the US is unique in taxes in a number of different ways. One claim to fame is the fact that the U.S. now has the highest...
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Are Energy Tax Expenditures Effective at Reducing Emissions?
In 2010 and 2011, the federal government "spent" nearly $50 billion in revenue on energy tax expenditures. But are these provisions actually achieving...
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Interpreting Changes in Long-Term Projections
Yesterday, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities updated its long-term outlook for the federal budget and like our long-term Realistic Baseline...
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MY VIEW: Laura Tyson June 28 2013
Today, on The New York Times' Economix blog, former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and CRFB board member Laura Tyson discusses the possible...
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Op-Ed: The Myriad Benefits of a Carbon Tax
The New York Times | June 28, 2013 Few goals in Washington have more bipartisan support, at least in theory, than cleaning up the tax code...