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WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition said today that if the tentative agreement to extend expiring tax cuts for two years is approved, it should be followed by a major push to reform the tax code. (more…)


On Monday President Obama announced a “framework for a bipartisan agreement” on extending the Bush tax cuts for two years, extending unemployment benefits for 13 months, and reducing the Social Security payroll tax for a year.The Concord Coalition said today…


By now we've seen a number of proposals for fiscal sustainability from groups with very different perspectives. (more…)


A rational debate about tax policy should include whether to let the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts expire, says Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert Bixby. That would bring federal revenues up to about 20 percent of GDP by 2020 --…


Sep 27, 2010
Last week, House Republicans offered a “Pledge To America” outlining their fiscal priorities and reform ideas. As with most such campaign manifestos, it is long on base-pleasing rhetoric and short on troublesome details. (more…)


Below are several developments we have been following since the last edition of the Washington Budget Report (sign up here) was published. (more…)


There’s talk of a political compromise on extending the Bush tax cuts but Diane Lim Rogers, The Concord Coalition’s chief economist, worries that fiscal responsibility is still taking a back seat. In a blog post today, she writes: “This is…


The media is buzzing about how House Minority Leader John Boehner and President Obama might be ready to "compromise" on what to do about the Bush tax cuts. From a story by Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery in Monday's Washington…


The administration, worried about Democratic election prospects, is considering a new set of tax cuts to stimulate the economy. But Diane Lim Rogers, Concord’s chief economist, argues that the administration’s ideas are neither new nor particularly well thought-out. While the…


The Obama Administration is now considering a new set of tax cuts, primarily aimed at businesses, to further stimulate the economy. It's reported that a permanent extension of the research and experimentation tax credit is one of these new proposals. …


Could you loan me ten dollars but just give me five? That way you’ll owe me five, I’ll owe you five, and we’ll be even.That old joke reminds Concord Chief Economist Diane Lim Rogers of a current policy issue: Whether…


New federal budget projections paint an alarming picture of the need for Washington to set better priorities and resist the temptation to dig the government into even deeper trouble with more deficit-financed spending and tax cuts. (more…)

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