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Federal Budget and Economy

Obama’s Spending Calculator

April 19, 2011 –
Now that you’re done filling out your 1040, the White House wants you to know where your tax dollars are going. Its Federal Taxpayer Receipt...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Would the House Budget Resolution Affect Tax Progressivity?

April 18, 2011 –
The House-passed budget resolution may be the start of a serious conversation about how to address our growing national debt, or it may be an...
Federal Budget and Economy

What Taxes Does Obama Want to Raise?

April 14, 2011 –
In yesterday’s budget speech , President Obama said that one leg of his fiscal policy stool is “tax reform to cut about $1 trillion in...
Federal Budget and Economy

Simplifying Child Related Incentives in the Tax Code

April 14, 2011 –
With only a weekend left to settle up with Uncle Sam, figuring out how much you owe (or stand to gain) is far from child’s...
Federal Budget and Economy

Obama, Ryan, and the Parameters of the Budget Debate

April 13, 2011 –
Imagine for a moment you walk into a dealership to buy the vehicle of your dreams. The salesman asks what you want to pay. You...
Federal Budget and Economy

Municipal Budget Shortfalls

April 12, 2011 –
While the budget difficulties facing states and the federal government are getting a lot of attention, we hear much less about the fiscal woes of...
Federal Budget and Economy

Who Benefits From Those Tax Breaks? All of Us.

April 6, 2011 –
“We have met the enemy and he is us,” said the cartoonist Walt Kelly. He was talking about preserving the environment, but he could have...
Federal Budget and Economy

The House GOP Budget: Lots of Change, and Many Questions

April 5, 2011 –
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...
Federal Budget and Economy

One Man's Interpretation of the Euphemisms

April 1, 2011 –
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...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Deficit, Euphemisms, and Hard Choices

March 31, 2011 –
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”...