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5 Reasons Why a Debt Commission Is the Wrong Prescription
A fiscal commission is likely to focus narrowly on reducing deficits, ignoring other important policy challenges.
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Long-term deficits and debt will affect the nation’s ability to fund important investments in the future.
We analyze long-term deficit and debt trends to illustrate the challenges we face and highlight potential solutions. We also encourage policymakers to enact measures to strengthen today’s job market as well as measures to reduce longer-term deficits.
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A State-by-State Look at the Estate Tax
House Republicans are expected to bring their proposal to repeal the federal estate tax to a vote in the week of April 13. Repeal would reduce revenues by $269 billion over the next decade and...
Estate Tax Repeal: A Misguided and Costly Policy
Eliminating the federal estate tax on inherited wealth, which the House Ways and Means Committee approved today and which we’ve explained would increase deficits and inequality, is a misguided —...
Congressional Budget Roundup 2015: Everything You Need to Know About the House and Senate Budget Plans
Updated May 12, 2015
The House and Senate have agreed on a budget resolution for 2016. Here we've collected our analyses of it, as well as the earlier House and Senate...
The House Budget Committee Plan — Not Medicaid — Makes Empty Promises
The House Budget Committee’s budget plan, which the House will consider on the floor this week, states that “Medicaid’s promises are empty,” claiming that beneficiaries don’t have health...
House, Senate Budget Plans Each Get 69 Percent of Cuts From Low-Income Programs
The 2016 budget resolutions that the House and Senate will consider this week each cut more than $3 trillion over ten years (2016-2025) from programs that serve people of limited means —...
CHIP Success Is No Reason to Convert Much of Medicaid to Block Grants
In proposing to convert much of Medicaid into two block grants, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi’s budget plan claims the Medicaid block grants would follow the successful Children’s...
Senate Budget Chairman’s Plan Would Block-Grant Much of Medicaid, Repeal Medicaid Expansion
Like House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price’s budget plan, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi’s new plan proposes to radically restructure Medicaid by converting much of it into two...
House Budget Chair’s Priority: Tax Cuts for Well-to-Do
While imposing harsh budget cuts on the most vulnerable Americans, House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price’s budget plan also appears to reflect a continuing drive to cut taxes for the nation’s...
Proposed Medicaid Block Grant Would Add Millions to Uninsured and Underinsured
The House budget's Medicaid cuts would reach $1.8 trillion over ten years, relative to current law, adding tens of millions of Americans to the ranks of the uninsured and...