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Fact: Mostly false. Although the tax cut raises the overall deficit by $101.1 billion this year then $89.3 billion in the next decade, it will not leave a gap in Social Security funding. According to the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee...
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Federal employees have already sacrificed $60 billion through pay freezes, toward reducing our deficit,” Cleaver said. “This is a clear assault on our public servants, the majority of whom work throughout our nation as police officers, mechanics,...
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And the games were even worse than I feared. Congress made no pretense of paying for the payroll tax cut itself. But it did claim it would pay for the rest of the package. Hint: It didn’t. There are two bits of legerdemain happening here. Both are...
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Occupy Wall Street gave the issue visibility, while the Congressional Budget Office supplied hard data on the widening income gap. And the myth of a classless society has been exposed: Among rich countries, America stands out as the place where...
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Development (OECD) predicts that close to 75 percent of Americans will be considered overweight or obese by the end of the decade, the highest predicted rate of any country surveyed. This equates to an eight percent rise in the number of Americans who...
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the center-right American Action Forum, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and economic adviser to Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, said in an interview that there is "a powerful...
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Policy Analysis, which made dire predictions about the budget killing 400,000 jobs. Not only did the predictions prove false, but the budget’s pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) measures and discretionary spending caps later helped give the government its first...
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Romney chose as the benchmark for his budget plans. Those figures are shown in Table 1. Table 1. Romney's Policies Cost $375 Billion Increase base defense spending to 4 percent of GDP $187 billion Romney tax plan $188 billion Cost of Romney Policies So...
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the center-right American Action Forum, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and economic adviser to Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, said in an interview that there is "a powerful...
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He tried to make sales–tax exemptions permanent before he retired in 2011. Donald Marron is an expert on US economic policy and federal budgeting at the Urban Institute. Between 2002 through 2009, he served as a member of the President's Council of...
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The memo also claims Santorum’s plan would add $990 billion to the deficit in 2015. The baseline for the analysis, officials said, was the latest Congressional Budget Office projection of deficits of 5 percent of GDP (or $981 billion) in 2016 – the end...
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The cost of the measure’s other provisions would be covered by spending cuts and other changes, and the bill would increase the deficit by $89 billion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. House Speaker John Boehner called...
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Denver Post is calling out the Chamber of Commerce for running an on behalf of Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) that falsely claims that the Affordable Care Act will undermine job growth. Opponents often cite the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office report...
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Some proposals to cover this gap have included using revenues from new oil & gas drilling projects and reducing government contributions to federal employee pensions. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has issued a report on HR 7 that estimates that...
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The disappearance of good working class jobs is the flip side of the anger many feel at income of the richest 1% explodingthat group had a 275 percent raise in income between [1979 and 2007] according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The...
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Some 62 percent said they favored reducing the number of federal workers as a means of shrinking the federal deficit, and 59 percent supported a federal wage freeze. Republicans base many of their arguments on a recently published report by the...
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Rest assured that it will be back in the not-too-distant future, however. Groups as varied as the Natural Resources Defense Council and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce support raising the tax. Failing that, or some other solution, the Congressional Budget...
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Some 62 percent said they favored reducing the number of federal workers as a means of shrinking the federal deficit, and 59 percent supported a federal wage freeze. Republicans base many of their arguments on a recently published report by the...
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That's $180 billion, or a 15.7% increase over the $1.15 trillion figure. John Brenan Corvallis, Ore. Why, oh why, does the media bolster President Obama's rhetoric by using his term: "the rich"? Would it not be more appropriate to say "the successful,"
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