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In less than three months, the highway bill enacted last July will expire and the program’s trust fund will face imminent depletion. (more…)


Ignoring Senate doubts and presidential veto threats, the House last week moved forward with legislation to permanently extend various tax breaks that would otherwise expire. The House Ways and Means Committee has approved legislation that would increase projected deficits by…


The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reported improvements since 2013 in many problematic areas in the federal government but also noted growing concerns in veterans health care, information technology and tax law enforcement. The agency’s new biennial update on “high-risk”…


The House Ways and Means Committee approved bills last week to make permanent an array of tax breaks that would increase federal deficits, but Senate Republican leaders indicated they would put such measures on the back burner. The full House…


The case for broad reforms in the federal income tax has been bolstered by a recent projection that special provisions known as “tax expenditures” will drain $1.5 trillion from federal revenue this year. That figure, up from $1.2 trillion last…


WASHINGTON -- With the release of President Obama’s proposed budget today, The Concord Coalition again urged Washington to focus on policies that would put the federal government on a sustainable track. (more…)


When you run for president, don’t run from the debt. That’s the message to 2016 presidential candidates that is highlighted in a recent guest column in the Des Moines Register by Robert L. Bixby, executive director of The Concord Coalition,…


The Concord Coalition and the Campaign to Fix the Debt announced today a joint effort to encourage public discussion during the 2016 presidential campaign of the nation’s unsustainable budget policies. The two nonpartisan organizations have a shared history of pushing…


After short-sighted funding cuts and a “devastating erosion of taxpayer service” in the last few years, most calls to the IRS for information this year are likely to go unanswered. That alarming news comes from National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E.…


With gas prices falling to their lowest levels in years and the Highway Trust Fund expected to run out of cash after May, some members of Congress are considering the first increase in motor fuels taxes in more than two…


The Senate is widely expected to approve a $42 billion, one-year renewal of over 50 tax breaks for certain businesses and other special interests without paying for them. The House approved the bill earlier this month and President Obama is…


WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Senators J. Robert Kerrey and John C. Danforth today released an update of a 1994 commission report on entitlement and tax reform and called on Americans -- particularly presidential hopefuls -- to quickly address the nation’s…

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