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A Helpful Budget Breakdown
CBO has gotten into the infographic game this year with some good results. Two days ago they released an infographic containing a basic breakdown of...
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Tax Policy Center Estimates Newt Gingrich's Tax Plan
A few days ago, the Tax Policy Center (TPC) came out with a distributional and revenue score for Newt Gingrich's tax plan. It is similar to Rick Perry...
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House Budget Committee Leaders Discuss Budget Reform Today
House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) will discuss budget process reform today at 1 pm ET at a...
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Line Items: Holidaze Edition
Happy Holidaze – The Christmas trees are up. The lights are lit. The shoppers are roaming the malls. The holiday specials are all over the television...
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Marc Goldwein: How to Pay For the Payroll Tax Cut
In an op-ed for The Atlantic, CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein made the case for offsetting the costs of the payroll tax cut, AMT patch, and...
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Op-Ed: How to Pay for the Payroll Tax Cut
The Atlantic | December 12, 2011 A solution to pay for $300 billion of stimulus that doesn't include the words "tax hike" or "spending cut" (Reuters)...
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Paying for the Extenders
With so many provisions set to expire at the end of the year, CRFB has released a new paper that details what lawmakers have to extend and how they...
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We Need a War Spending Cap
One of the most popular budget gimmicks in Washington right now is the war savings gimmick. Because CBO assumes that discretionary spending grows with...
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House GOP Releases Extenders Package with Offsets
Today, House Republicans have officially released their plan to extend the current payroll tax holiday for a year, two years of doc fixes, and a year...
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More on the Proposed Budget Process Reforms
As we reported on The Bottom Line the other day, Republican members of the House released a set of 10 pieces of legislation they argue would improve...