Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...