Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
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Deep Federal-Deficit Hole? Stop Digging!
MinnPost | October 27, 2008 With the cost of the "financial system bailout," the budget deficit may well reach an astronomical $1 trillion this coming...
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Guide to Tax Policy: The 2008 Presidential Election
The next president have to address fiscal imbalances within the government and a dramatically rising federal debt. National debt has been on a more or...
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Guide to Social Security: The 2008 Presidential Election
Social Security is the single largest government program. In 2007, the program cost $585 billion and provided benefits for roughly 50 million retirees...
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How Will McCain or Obama Pay For This Mess?
New York Daily News | October 14, 2008 The agreement on the $700 billion bailout package begs the question, "How are we going to pay for all this?" In...
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Guide to Stimulus Proposals: The 2008 Presidential Election
The United States is in the midst of an economic crisis. Financial institutions are failing, the credit markets are frozen, and global stock markets...
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Twelve Principles for Fiscal Responsibility
The United States faces a number of serious fiscal challenges. Budget deficits are back, the economy has weakened, Social Security is unsound, growing...
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Deficit Bubble Boiling, Trouble is Close Behind
Roll Call | February 28, 2008 In recent years, America has lurched from one economic bubble to the next. Early this decade, the dot-com bubble burst...