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Federal Workers Are Rewarded When They Waste Your Money
Teaser: The federal government's fiscal year ends on September 30, concluding the month-long spending spree known as "use it or lose it" season in Washington--resulting in a slew of questionable...
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Losing Employer-Provided Coverage: Another ACA Prediction Comes True
This past week provided an important example of the anticipated effects of the Affordable Care Act coming to pass. Walmart has announced that it will no longer offer health insurance for 26,000...
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Here’s the New Congress’ Most Important Task
Teaser: The failure of Congress to execute its legal responsibility — to pass a budget — in favor of scoring political points is emblematic of legislators’ inability to reform antiquated policies.This...
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No Budget, No Pay (and Other Modest Proposals for Congress)
Teaser: Procedure, dysfunctional procedure, also plays a dispositive role in our budget process—to the detriment of growth.One thing that the Keystone XL defeat reminds you of is the importance of...
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Predictions and Enduring Truths for 2015
Teaser: The U.S. economy heads into the New Year with considerable strength. Real gross domestic product – our most comprehensive measure of inflation-adjusted income and spending – expanded at an...
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What to Watch in the President’s Budget Proposal
Teaser: President Obama’s budget proposal, to be released on Monday, confirms that a sweeping, bipartisan compromise to tame exploding federal debt is not on the White House agenda for 2016. The...
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Mindless Yes, Austerity No: The Real Budget Problem
Teaser: As long as spending growth in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA continues unabated, we can expect the share of national resources devoted to other federal government priorities to...
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Debt Ceiling Will Be Next Budget Battle
Teaser: The fight over Department of Homeland Security funding has just ended and the next showdown over the country’s finances is already underway. The temporary suspension of the debt ceiling will...
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A Pathway to Solvency
Teaser: This week the House and Senate Budget Committees released their proposed budgets for fiscal year 2016. The chambers will go to conference on the budgets after the Easter recess, and a unified...
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Gaming Out the Scenarios in King v. Burwell
Teaser: Earlier this year the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in King v. Burwell, a case critical to the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or so-called Obamacare). Earlier this year the U.S....
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The Case For Legislative Impact Accounting
Teaser: Estimates of the total cost of regulations vary widely, but by any account, they represent a significant cost to the economy. We propose reforming the legislative and regulatory processes to...
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Busting the Flat Tax Fallacy
Teaser: Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul recently unveiled his flat tax proposal. While Paul claims such a simple plan will help expand the American economy, implementing this system will...
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A Warning from the Medicare Trustees
Teaser: My most recent article for e21 summarized the 2015 Social Security trustees’ report released last week. This companion piece does the same for the Medicare report. These are the last annual...
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Hillary's Long-Term Growth Plan Ignores Granddaughter Charlotte
Teaser: Clinton clearly missed the memo on the need for tax simplification.Hillary Clinton wants to rein in short-termism on Wall Street: the tendency of corporate executives to focus on quarterly...
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An Overdue Budget Reform: Prohibit Double-Counting of Medicare Savings
Teaser: There is no shortage of ideas on how to improve the federal budget process; it is difficult to get bipartisan agreement on most of them.Key members of Congress, notably the chairs of the budget...
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