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Congressional Leadership Pushes For Extending Expiring Tax Breaks, But Ignores Expiring Unemployment Benefits
Joel Friedman, David Kamin, and Isaac Shapiro
11/25/03
39K-HTML,
37K-PDF, 6pp.
The Energy Bill: More Tax Breaks in the Face of Rising Deficits
David Kamin, Joel Friedman, and Richard Kogan
11/19/03
22K-HTML,
27K-PDF,
3pp.
Medicare "Cost Containment" Proposal Includes Ideologically Loaded Provisions
Richard Kogan, Edwin Park, and Robert Greenstein
Revised 11/7/03
36K-HTML,
57K-PDF,
8pp.
Administration Proposal To Combine The Accounting Of Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B, And Prescription Drugs Is Unsound
Richard Kogan and Edwin Park
11/3/03
28K-HTML,
38K-PDF,
5pp.
Gimmicks Mask True Cost of Revised Thomas Corporate Tax-Cut Package
Joel Friedman
10/27/03
21K-HTML,
32K-PDF,
4pp.
Swelling Deficits: Increased Spending is not the Principal Culprit
Richard Kogan
10/27/03
27K-HTML,
42K-PDF, 3pp.
The Decline of Corporate Income Tax Revenues
Joel Friedman
Revised
10/24/03
200K-HTML,
70K-PDF, 13pp.
Fact Sheet: 14K-HTML,
26K-PDF, 2pp.
Federal Income Taxes, as a Share of GDP, Drop to Lowest Level Since 1942, According to Final Budget Data
Isaac Shapiro
10/21/03
67K-HTML, 39K-PDF,
7pp.
Federal Policies Contribute to the Severity of the State Fiscal Crisis
Iris Lav
10/17/03
67K-HTML, 65K-PDF,
13pp.
More Fiscally Irresponsible Tax Cuts This Fall?
Joel Friedman
9/30/03
53K-HTML, 42K-PDF, 6pp.
Mid-Term And Long-Term Deficit Projections
9/29/03
Introduction: 13K-HTML
Press Release: 19K-HTML,
34K-PDF, 3pp.
Full Report: 153K-PDF, 19pp.
Joint Statement: 59K-HTML,
56K-PDF, 6pp.
Media Packet: 70K-PDF, 39pp.
Does The Administration Really Have A Plan To Cut The Deficit In Half?
Richard Kogan
Revised
9/16/03
19K-HTM, 27K-PDF, 3pp.
Sacrifice Is Relative: Cost Of War, Though High, Remains Far Less Than Cost Of Tax Cuts
Richard Kogan
9/11/03
25K-HTM, 37K-PDF, 3pp.
Fact Sheet: "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse" Spending-Cut Targets Much Larger than Advertised
John Springer
9/10/03
18K-HTML, 22K-PDF, 1pp.
$401 Billion vs $455 Billion: Good News, Bad News, Or No News?
Richard Kogan
Revised 9/3/03
24K-HTM, 27K-PDF, 3pp.
Reducing "Waste, Fraud, And Abuse": One Percent Of What?
Richard Kogan
9/2/03
216K-HTML, 82K-PDF, 14pp.
Are Policies That Assist Low-Income Workers Receiving Appropriate Priority?
Edited by Isaac Shapiro and Sharon Parrott
8/29/03
79K-HTML, 90K-PDF, 14pp.
Deficit Picture Even Grimmer Than New CBO Projections Suggest
Richard Kogan
8/26/03
89K-HTML, 87K-PDF, 12pp.
OMB Figures Show
Revenues - Due To Tax Cuts - At Exceptionally Low Levels, While
Spending Levels Are Not Especially High
Isaac Shapiro and Richard Kogan
7/23/03
86-HTML,
25K-PDF,
2pp.
Fact Sheet: Annual Deficits To
Exceed $300 Billion Through The Coming Decade
John Springer
7/22/03
35K-HTML,
30K-PDF,
2pp.
Sanitizing The Grim
News: The Administration's Efforts to Make Harmful Deficits Appear
Benign
Richard Kogan and Robert
Greenstein
7/18/03
60K-HTML,
73K-PDF,
6pp.
The Causes and
Significance of the New Deficit Figures
Richard Kogan
Revised 7/15/03
23K-HTML,
53K-PDF,
3pp.
Statement of Robert
Greenstein, Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, on the New Administration Budget
Projections
7/15/03
17K-HTML,
24K-PDF,
2pp.
War, Tax Cuts, And The Deficit
Richard Kogan
Revised 7/8/03
60K-HTML,
44K-PDF,
5pp.
300 Billion Deficits,
As Far As The Eye Can See
Richard Kogan
Revised 7/8/03
120K-HTML,
74K-PDF,
12pp.
How Significant are the Administration's Proposed Increases in
Foreign Development Aid?
Nancy Birdsall, Isaac Shapiro and Brian
Deese
5/27/03
353K-PDF,
11pp.
Tax Policy Center And
CBPP. Analyses Show That House Tax Plan
Would Be More Tilted Toward The Very Wealthy - And More Expensive -
Than Bush Plan
Robert Greenstein, Richard Kogan, and
Andrew Lee
Revised 5/21/03
43K-HTML,
35K-PDF,
5pp.
Press Release: Senate Appears Poised To Approve Tax Cut With Actual Cost Of $660
Billion
5/15/03
15K-HTML,
31K-PDF,
2pp.
Nickles Dividend Amendment Relies On Budget Gimmicks, Would Balloon
Ultimate Cost Of Senate Package To About $660 Billion
Joel Friedman and Robert
Greenstein
Revised 5/15/03
28K-HTML,
32K-PDF,
4pp.
Press Release: Federal Revenues Below Expectations, Casting Doubt on Affordability
of New Tax Cuts; Revenues at Lowest Point in Decades as Share of
GDP
John Springer
5/12/03
17K-HTML,
22K-PDF,
2pp.
New CBO Data Show Deficit Will Be Higher Than Earlier Forecast As
Revenues Fall To Their Lowest Level In Decades, As A Share Of
GDP
Isaac Shapiro
5/12/03
81K-HTML,
30K-PDF,
3pp.
Despite Some Improvements Over Other Bills, Senate Finance
Committee Tax-Cut Measure Remains Deeply Flawed
Joel Friedman and Robert
Greenstein
5/9/03
69K-HTML,
65K-PDF,
10pp.
Millionaires and the Ways and Means Tax Plan
Isaac Shapiro
5/7/03
32K-HTML,
26K-PDF,
3pp.
States Could Lose Up To $8 Billion During Current Fiscal Crisis As
A Result Of Senate Finance Committee Proposal
Iris Lav
Revised 5/6/03
16K-HTML,
26K-PDF,
3pp.
Federal Revenues Appear To Be Drying Up More Than Expected; By Key
Measure, Revenues 5/Hit Lowest Level in About Four Decades, Even
Before New Tax Cuts
Isaac Shapiro
5/5/03
72K-HTML,
30K-PDF,
4pp.
Administration's Economic Growth Claims Disputed By Broad Range Of
Economists
4/17/03
43K-HTML,
30-PDF, 6pp.
The Administration's Tax Cut Blitz: Assessing The
Message
Robert Greenstein and Isaac
Shapiro
4/17/03
40K-HTML,
26-PDF, 5pp.
Overview Of Final Budget Resolution Agreement: Large Tax Cuts In Budget Resolution Would Worsen Long-Term Fiscal
Outlook
Joel Friedman
Revised 4/17/03
45K-HTML,
154-PDF, 6pp.
How Will Tax Cuts Be Handled Under The 2004 Budget
Resolution?
Richard Kogan, Robert Greenstein, and
Joel Friedman
4/15/03
18K-HTML,
22K-PDF, 3pp.
Comparing The House And Senate Budgets
Robert Greenstein and Richard
Kogan
Revised 4/7/03
47K-HTML,
24K-PDF, 4pp.
Will The Senate's "Pay-As-You-Go Rule" Make Budget Plans Less
Costly?
Richard Kogan
Revised 4/7/03
34K-HTML,
24K-PDF,
3pp.
What Does The Spratt Motion To Instruct Budget Conferees
Mean?
Richard Kogan
4/3/03
18K-HTML,
25K-PDF, 3pp.
House Budget Gives Government Reform Committee Unprecedented Power
to Cut Programs in Other Committees' Jurisdictions
Richard Kogan and Robert
Greenstein
3/31/03
14K-HTML,
22K-PDF, 2pp.
Fact Sheet: Entitlement Cuts in House Budget Plan Could Have Serious Human
Costs
John
Springer
Revised 3/28/03
11K-HTML,
21K-PDF,
1pp.
The Human Costs Of Cuts In Major Low-Income Programs Contained in
the House Budget Resolution
Sharon Parrott and John
Springer
Revised 3/28/03
66K-HTML,
47K-PDF, 10pp.
Steep Domestic Discretionary Spending Cuts In House Budget Far
Exceed Substantial Cuts In Senate And President's
Budget
Richard Kogan and Isaac Shapiro
3/28/03
29K-HTML,
22K-PDF, 3pp.
House Budget Plan Calls For Deep Cuts In Key Low-Income Entitlement
Programs: State-By-State Table Shows How Benefits And Services In Each
State Would Be Affected
Sharon Parrott
Revised 3/28/03
12K-HTML,
41K-PDF, 3pp.
House Budget Plan Calls For Cuts In Key Domestic Entitlement
Programs: Cuts Average Four Percent Over Ten Years, Grow Deeper Each
Year
Richard Kogan
Revised 3/26/03
55K-HTML,
25K-PDF, 3pp.
Nickles Amendments To Budget Resolution Would Undo Tax-Cut
Reductions Passed To Pay For War And Ease Effects On
Deficits
Robert Greenstein, Joel Friedman,
and Isaac Shapiro
3/25/03
14K-HTML
23K-PDF, 2pp.
Beneficiaries Of Proposed Social Security-Related Tax Cut Have
Significant Wealth; Their Average Net Worth Exceeds $1 Million, While
Their Median Net Worth is $420,000
Robert Greenstein and Diane
Whitmore
3/25/03
16K-HTML
23K-PDF, 2pp.
Press Release: House Budget Contains
Large Cuts In Medicaid And Other Domestic Programs
Revised 3/24/03
23K-HTML,
23K-PDF, 3pp.
Deep Program Cuts In House Budget Proposal Would Be
Exceeded By Size Of Tax Cuts For The Top 1%
Isaac Shapiro
Revised 3/21/03
11K-HTML,
15K-PDF, 2pp.
Fact Sheet: Broad Cuts in Entitlement Programs Under House Budget
Plan
John Springer
Revised 3/21/03
45K-HTML,
17K-PDF,
1pp.
An Illustration of How Much Each State Might Lose in Federal
Medicaid and SCHIP Matching Funds Under the House Budget
Resolution
Leighton Ku
3/20/03
55K-HTML,
15K-PDF, 1pp.
The Extent To Which The House And Senate Budget Committees' Plans
Would Increase Deficits And Debt
Richard Kogan
Revised 3/21/03
83K-HTML,
34K-PDF, 4pp.
Fact Sheet: House and Senate Budget Plans Would Add Trillions in
Debt
John Springer
Revised 3/21/03
28K-HTM,
23K-PDF,
1pp.
Fact Sheet: Cost of Administration Tax Cuts Exceeds the Combined Long-term
Deficits Faced by Social Security and Medicare
John Springer
Revised 3/20/03
26K-HTML,
25K-PDF, 2pp.
The Senate Budget Committee's Tax Cut Is Only 7 1/2 Percent Smaller
Than The Administration's
Richard Kogan
3/19/03
26K-HTM,
22K-PDF, 2pp.
The Administration's Tax Cuts And The Long-term Budget
Outlook
Peter Orszag, Richard Kogan and Robert
Greenstein
Revised 3/19/03
32K-HTML,
33K-PDF, 6pp.
Fact Sheet: Administration Tax Cuts Are Unlikely to Increase Economic Growth
Substantially And Will Not Pay for Themselves
John Springer
Revised 3/13/03
27K-HTML,
26K-PDF, 2pp.
Blue-Ribbon Business Group Issues Stern Warning on Deficits And
Advises Against Further Tax Cuts
3/12/03
22K-HTML,
29K-PDF, 4pp.
Fact Sheet: Administration Tax Cut Proposals Would Cost $2.7 Trillion Through
2013
John Springer
Revised 3/10/03
19K-HTML,
75K-PDF,
1pp.
New CBO Report Puts Deficit Under Administration Policies At $1.8
Trillion Over Ten Years
Robert Greenstein
Revised 3/10/03
17K-HTML,
75K-PDF, 2pp.
Removing Only The "Dividend" Proposal Would Reduce Ultimate Cost Of
President's Tax Agenda By One-Sixth Or Less
Richard Kogan and Robert
Greenstein
3/7/03
24K-HTML,
67K-PDF, 4pp.
Administration's Tax Cutting Agenda Would Cost $2.7
Trillion Through 2013
Joel Friedman, Richard Kogan and Denis
Kadochnikov
Revised 3/7/03
23K-HTML,
48K-PDF, 6pp.
Will The Tax Cuts Ultimately Pay For Themselves?
Richard Kogan
3/3/03
70K-HTML,
191K-PDF,
8pp.
Will The Administration's Tax Cuts Generate Substantial Economic
Growth?
Richard Kogan
3/3/03
45K-HTML,
168K-PDF,
9pp.
Fact Sheet: President's Claim Of Nine Percent Increase In Aid To States Is
Highly Misleading
Richard Kogan and Iris J. Lav
3/1/03
12K-HTML,
65K-PDF,
1pp.
President's Claim Of Nine Percent Increase In Aid To States Is
Highly Misleading
Richard Kogan and Iris J. Lav
3/1/03
47K-HTML,
48K-PDF,
4pp.
The State Fiscal Crisis is Impeding Economic Growth: Federal Aid to
States Would be Most Effective Stimulus
Iris J. Lav
2/18/03
26K-HTML,
43K-PDF,
4pp.
Tax Cuts a Major Factor in Return of Deficits
John Springer
2/13/03
9K-HTML,
25K-PDF,
1pp.
Are Tax Cuts A Minor Or Major Factor In The Return Of Deficits?
What the CBO Data Show
Richard Kogan
2/12/03
15K-HTML,
150K-PDF,
10pp.
CBO Projections Understate Potential Deficits Because They Leave
Out Large Costs That Are Very Likely to Occur
Richard Kogan
Revised 1/31/03
22K-HTML,
31K-PDF, 4pp.
Left Behind in Good Times and Bad: The Administration's 2003 Budget
Proposes Reductions in Programs for Low- and Moderate-Income Families
Amidst an Economic Slump
Richard Kogan
Revised 1/28/03
136K-HTML,
69K-PDF, 12pp.
Cutting $10 Billion in Appropriations for Poverty and Other
Programs
While Promoting a $670 Billion Tax Cut: Does this Represent Fiscal
Discipline and Balanced Policy?
Robert Greenstein and Richard
Kogan
Revised 1/22/03
23K-HTML,
45K-PDF, 4pp.
Total Cost of Bush "Growth Package" Exceeds $900 Billion: $674
Billion Figure Doesn't Include Cost of Increased Interest
Payments
Richard Kogan
1/9/03
13K-HTML,
22K-PDF, 2pp.
Squandered: CBO Figures Show How the Surplus of 2001 Became a
Deficit in 2003
Richard Kogan
1/6/03
24K-HTML
Summary: 38K-PDF, 2pp.
Full Report: 149K-PDF,
14pp
