If you view a budget as a vision of government, the House GOP’s fiscal map unveiled today charts a profound course correction for Washington and...

As my TPC colleague Howard Gleckman noted , there's a lot of euphemizing in the bevy of recent letters calling on our elected leaders to...

If we are going to make real progress on deficit reduction, politicians will, sooner or later, have to stop talking in code. The “adult conversation”...

While there seems to be growing agreement in Washington that the U.S. needs to cut its tax rate on corporations, there is (surprise) no consensus...

Few people marry or divorce to change their tax status, but the federal income tax code does treat married couples and single people differently. Each...

The Community Living Services and Supports (CLASS) Act is an extraordinary case study in both budget and health care politics, and in the toxic political...

I answered questions for The Wall Street Journal real estate blog Developments today. I got the chance to answer questions about local assessment strategies, state...

In a guest column at CNN Money , I suggest that Washington is suffering from time-management issues in its approach to the budget. America faces...

Remember President Obama’s 2012 budget—the fiscal framework he released in February. You’d be forgiven if you’ve forgotten. After all, Washington can’t seem to stop squabbling...

Could Congress replace the current Medicare system with a voucher program, as former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin and House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan...