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  • CBO: Spending Is Still the Problem
    May 14, 2013 - Moments ago, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provided a fresh reminder of Washington’s out-of-control spending. CBO updated its budget outlook with the following deficit and debt estimates: This year’s budget deficit = $642 billion FY2023 budget deficit = $895 billion Total deficits over the n... More
  • The President’s Plan Takes More to Spend More
    April 10, 2013 - Their Budget Never Balances—Ever The House budget balances in ten years, but, like Senate Democrats, the White House says their budget never balances—ever. $8.2 Trillion in New Debt Accounting for the cost of eliminating the sequester and removing the budget gimmicks, net deficit reduction is only ... More
  • The Facts on President Obama’s Budget Record
    June 7, 2012 - Despite a promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, the President has run annual deficits in excess of $1 trillion for four years in a row. Since the President took office, annual government spending has increased by 25%, with the federal government spending $3.6 trillion thi... More
  • Correcting Distortions and Myths on Tax Relief and Deficits
    June 7, 2012 - Fueled by the unsustainable growth in government spending, the federal government’s budget deficits have increased sharply in recent years, eclipsing the $1 trillion mark the past three years and are on track to do so for a fourth. Gross public debt has already surpassed the size of the entire U.S. ... More
  • Analysis of the President’s Budget for FY2013
    February 24, 2012 - KEY POINTS The President’s budget spends too much – a net spending increase of $1.5 trillion above current projections. The President’s budget taxes too much – a net tax increase of $1.9 trillion above current projections. The President’s budget borrows too much: It adds over $11 trillion to the na... More
  • President's Budget Charts Path to Debt and Decline
    February 13, 2012 - The President has not merely ducked from our fiscal and economic challenges, but—with his fourth straight budget flop—he has advanced policies that dangerously accelerate the crisis before us. His gimmick-filled budget fails to reduce the fast-rising debt, permanently entrenches unsustainable levels... More
  • Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011
    December 9, 2011 - Budget Impact H.R. 3630 extends the payroll tax holiday, reforms and extends unemployment insurance benefits, and provides for a two-year extension of the Medicare “doc fix.” The bill is fully offset over a ten-year period based on Congressional Budget Office estimates. The table below shows the bud... More
  • A Deeper Look at Income Inequality
    November 17, 2011 - KEY POINTS: The question for policymakers is not how best to redistribute a shrinking economic pie. The focus ought to be on increasing living standards, expanding the pie of economic opportunity, and promoting upward mobility for all. Conventional wisdom on government’s role in inequality often has... More
  • FACT SHEET: The Optimist’s Guide to Repeal and Replace
    September 27, 2011 - The Problem: According to the CBO, spending on Medicare and Medicaid is pulling America towards a debt-fueled economic collapse and, unless reformed, the programs will implode, thus depriving the neediest in our society of a crucial safety net. Moreover, the President’s healthcare law has made thin... More
  • Credibility Deficit Widens with President’s Third “Budget” in Seven Months
    September 21, 2011 - In the span of seven months, President Obama has offered three different budget plans for the federal government. He offered an actual budget in February, a budget “framework” in April, and yet another tax-and-spend plan this past week (more spending in the “American Jobs Act”; more taxes in a new p... More

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