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Voters are hearing promises of big tax cuts from the Republican presidential candidates and big spending increases from the Democrats. But Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby points out that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last week released…

A new report, released shortly before Monday’s Iowa caucuses, says that while all of the 2016 presidential candidates in both parties acknowledge that the rapidly growing national debt is a problem, most of their proposals to deal with it fall…

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul reiterated his support for balancing the budget in five years in a recent Your First Budget interview. “I don’t think we can continue to incur so much debt,” said Paul, a U.S. Senator from Kentucky.…

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, in a Your First Budget interview, said recently her initial priorities in Washington would be to revamp the tax code and institute “zero-based budgeting.” The Your First Budget interview series is sponsored by First Budget…

There is an “unwarranted sense of complacency” about the federal debt in Washington even as it approaches $19 trillion, according to an op-ed by two prominent New Hampshire residents. “Ignoring the nation's growing debt burden has become a bipartisan pastime,”…

Former New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and private-sector leaders expressed concern about how irresponsible fiscal policies could harm the country’s economic future at a forum Monday in Portsmouth, N.H. “Getting something done on these issues…

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie will discuss his tax and spending proposals in a live interview that will appear online at 3:45 p.m. EST today as part of Fiscal Fridays, the public affairs television series on the New Hampshire-based NH1…

The Concord Coalition has announced two new co-chairs who have long been known for their work to promote greater fiscal responsibility: former U.S. Senators Bob Kerrey and Jack Danforth. Danforth, a Missouri Republican, and Kerrey, a Democrat who represented Nebraska…