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...

“The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit." Grover Norquist You’ve got to give Grover...

Interesting to see Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) working hard to build a case for trimming the $1 trillion in tax breaks that...

Do state and local workers get paid more or less than their private sector counterparts? That old question has taken on renewed life with the...

The battle over Internet sales taxes, simmering for more than a decade, is boiling over. And I think somebody bought the tea kettle on Amazon.com...

To the Obama Administration, tax reform means corporate tax restructuring. Both the president and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner have argued that at least the first...

This morning I appeared at hearing of the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee on " Small Businesses and Tax...

While states are trying to balance their budgets by cutting education and health care as well as aid to local governments, governors are fighting to...