Although Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once described taxes as “what we pay for civilized society,” political debates over ...
Congress and the White House are accelerating their budget and debt limit negotiations amid growing concerns about the ...
WASHINGTON -- Diane Lim Rogers, chief economist for The Concord Coalition, will focus on the federal budget, ...
Elected officials still seem locked into their negotiating positions on the federal debt limit, leading Moody’s to warn ...
Elected officials often approach discussions about deficit reduction as a zero-sum game in which compromise amounts to defeat. ...
Later today House Republicans plan to vote down an initial request from the administration to approve an increase ...
The leaders of two prominent deficit-reduction panels worry that elected officials this year will lack “the courage to ...
Last week Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mt.) said "A debt reduction trigger could be an important ...
Broad tax reform could simplify the tax code, boost the country’s economy and help reduce deficits all at ...
Elected officials in both parties have made what I call “magical, mystery tax pledges” that are at odds ...
Congressional leaders have completed their appointments to a deficit-reduction panel proposed by President Obama but the group will ...
If President Obama and Republican leaders in Congress hope to build consensus around a plan for fiscal sustainability, ...
