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Appropriations Update: A Return to Normalcy?
With just a month left to go before the temporary funding for FY 2012 runs out, the Senate is trying a different strategy from the one that has...
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CRFB Analysis Shows Why Going Big Could Improve Chances of Success
With the Super Committee deliberating and the window for committee submissions passed, CRFB has released an analysis and a corresponding slide show...
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Op-Ed: Tax Reform: 25-Years Old Today, and Ready for a Facelift
The Atlantic | October 22, 2011 We've spent a quarter-century undoing the smart, simple tax reforms of 1986. Here's to hoping Washington can act like...
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The Importance of Shared Sacrifice
As is well-known by now, the growth in entitlement programs fueled by rising health care costs and an aging population threatens an ever-increasing...
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Path to Debt Stabilization: A Comparison of Debt Triggers
The President’s Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction included a detailed legislative proposal intended to enforce a declining path for the...
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Saving the U.S. Postal Service
Earlier this week, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced a number of rate increases to take effect in January 2012. For starters, the cost of first...
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Tracker Updated With Two Plans From Last Week
We have updated our tracker of recommendations to the Super Committee with two plans that came out last Wednesday. The first is by the Congressional...
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Democrats Target Oil and Other Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Yesterday, a group of 14 Senate Democrats sent a letter to the Super Committee, urging them to eliminate oil subsidies for the top five oil companies...
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Social Security COLA Increase
Social Security beneficiaries will see a raise in their benefits next year, resulting from a 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase...
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Growing Support for Go Big
For the past several weeks, we have been urging the Super Committee to Go Big on deficit-reduction and exceed its savings mandate of $1.5 trillion...
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Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Releases Budget Proposal
Yesterday, presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) released his budget blueprint for what would be his first term in office, which he...
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Last Minute Recommendations to the Super Committee
Update: The House and Senate Agricultural Committees sent a bicameral, bipartisan letter to the Super Committee on Friday, promising a $23 billion...