Pointing to warnings from congressional budget experts and the trustees who oversee Medicare and Social Security, The Concord Coalition’s Midwest regional director recently emphasized the importance of simultaneously dealing with immediate economic problems while laying the groundwork for broad fiscal…
A tax code with tens of thousands of pages. The huge defense budget. The complexities of Medicare and Social Security, plus a myriad of government programs for which Congress approves money on an annual basis . . . . All…
Federal budgeting isn’t for the faint of heart. The tax code alone consists of tens of thousands of pages. Then there's the defense budget, the other eleven annual appropriations bills, Medicare, Medicaid, the need to modernize Social Security . .…
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released an excellent analysis of the “fiscal cliff” facing the country in the form of large policy changes that are scheduled to take effect at the end of this year.The CBO warns that policymakers…
