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CBO Releases Updated Estimate of Farm Bills
Update: This blog has been updated to include numbers from the CBO score of the House farm bill. As we have written previously, the American Taxpayer...
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MY VIEW: Ed Rendell
With previously enacted deficit reduction and the economic recovery helping our short-term fiscal outlook, it may be tempting for lawmakers to put the...
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Op-Ed: Sequester Signals Need for Real Deficit Reduction
Politico | May 13, 2013 It seems the debt deniers are back. If recent news reports are any indication, there is a growing sentiment that after...
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Going Abroad: Senate Finance's International Tax Options Paper
Conveniently, the same day that House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committee chairs Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) published a...
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Martin Neil Baily and Glenn Hubbard Make A Case for Chained CPI
Two former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Martin Neil Baily of the Clinton Administration and Glenn Hubbard of the Bush Administration...
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Op-Ed: A Bipartisan Case for Chained CPI
The Hill | May 9, 2013 Over the last few days, politically driven critics have called on the president to abandon his support for changing the way the...
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Reinhart and Rogoff Release Errata
Economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University have issued an erratum to their 2010 paper, “ Growth in a Time of Debt.” Their...
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Don't Put the Budget on the Back Burner
A recent Washington Post article, “ As Red Ink Recedes, Pressure Fades for a Budget Deal,” suggests that a fall in the short term deficits may...
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Immigration Reform: A Boon to Social Security?
On the eve of the Senate Judiciary Committee marks up the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill, Stephen Goss, the Chief Actuary of the Social Security...
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Tax Writers Assemble!
With tax reform growing as a topic of discussion in DC, the two leaders of the tax-writing committees in the House and Senate -- Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI)...
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Line Items: Cicada Edition
Lots of Buzz – The Cicadas are coming back. After maturing underground for 17 years, billions of the insects from the Brood II cohort are beginning to...
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The Challenge of Corporate Tax Reform
Tax reform has many moving pieces to it and many questions that need to be answered. One question is whether the two pieces should be handled together...