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FY 2013 Budget is Settled...For Now
Late last week, the Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) by a 62-30 vote to keep the government funded for the next six months with only a week...
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Capital Gains and Tax Reform
Yesterday, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee held a joint hearing on tax reform and the tax treatment of capital...
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Erskine Bowles and Al Simpson: Debt Solution Must Be Bipartisan
In today's USA Today, Fix the Debt co-founders and Simpson-Bowles co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Al Simpson write that each party can't just have its...
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McCain Says Leave Everything on the Table
On Bloomberg Government's "Capitol Gains" show, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) endorsed at least the Simpson-Bowles outline as the starting point for...
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Op-Ed: Debt Solution Must Be Bipartisan
USA Today | September 21, 2012 In February of 2010, when we accepted the job as co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and...
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Where is the Estate Tax Heading?
POLITICO reported earlier in the week that the estate tax debate is re-emerging as the expiration of the 2001/2003/2010 tax cuts looms. The estate tax...
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Concord Coalition Honors the Brave 38
Tonight, the Concord Coalition will present their annual Paul E. Tsongas Patriot Award to the Brave 38—the 22 Democratic and the 16 Republican...
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Fiscal Fact Checker: Simpson-Bowles Raises Revenue
Today on Bloomberg, Edward Lazear -- the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under former President George W. Bush -- talked about the...
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NPR Breaks Down the Fiscal Cliff
Today, NPR's Planet Money featured a helpful "three and a half graphic" breakdown of the fiscal cliff, relying on CRFB's figures. The piece breaks...
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Lessons from Canada
The United States is not the only country in the world who has, or is, facing fiscal problems. Our neighbor to the north faced some severe fiscal...
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Quantifying the Effects of Uncertainty
We have seen many lawmakers and business leaders claim that the fiscal cliff is holding back the recovery and leading to higher unemployment, and in...