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As Florida voters considered their options in the Republican presidential primary, a forum Thursday at Jacksonville University featured experts on the federal budget discussing some of the fiscal issues that should be on center stage in this year’s elections.Mel Martinez,…

With the new session of Congress getting under way, three members of a bipartisan deficit-reduction commission told Kansas City business leaders and others last week that a wide range of fiscal reforms deserves to be high on the legislative agenda.G.…

The Congressional Budget Office today released new projections that should spur candidates for federal office to provide voters with realistic proposals to meet the country’s fiscal challenges.Robert L. Bixby, The Concord Coalition’s executive director, said the CBO’s new Budget and…

New government figures on unpaid taxes underscore the importance of broad tax reform as well as adequate enforcement efforts.The Internal Revenue Service this month updated its calculations on the “tax gap” – the difference between what Americans owe in taxes…

With Republican presidential candidates campaigning hard in the South, experts on the federal budget told two public forums in Charleston, South Carolina, Thursday that the United States could not afford further delays in dealing with its fiscal and demographic challenges.…

Because fiscal reform requires extremely difficult choices, it is a subject where many candidates quickly turn to vague platitudes and partisan finger-pointing. (more…)

Although Congress reached agreement last month on a temporary extension of the payroll tax cut, more partisan logjams are widely anticipated in the months ahead – even though compromise and bipartisan cooperation will be needed to make the big policy…

President Obama announced yesterday that Jacob J. Lew, his budget director, would replace William Daley as the White House chief of staff. Obama said he valued Lew’s advice because of his “mastery of the numbers” in the federal budget as…