Budget and Deficits

News

• US Chamber Backed Study All Wrong on Tax Cuts -- 07/19/2012
• Should Congress Just Go Home? -- 06/07/2012
• GOP Speaker Boehner Threatens Default if Spending Not Cut Yet Insists on Tax Cuts that Increase the Deficit -- 05/18/2012
• Starving the Census in the House GOP Budget: Penny Wise, And Dumb -- 05/14/2012
• Senator Rand Paul: Champion of Secret Swiss Bank Accounts -- 05/02/2012

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Reports

• Fact Sheet: Proposals for Extending Bush Tax Cuts for Another Year Would Cost Upwards of $240 Billion -- 07/09/2012
• Presentation: Tax and Revenue Decisions Facing Congress and the President -- 03/24/2012
• Ryan Budget Plan Would Cut Income Taxes for Millionaires by at Least $187,000 Annually and Facilitate Corporate Tax Avoidance -- 03/22/2012
• Policy Options to Raise Revenue -- 03/08/2012
• President Obama's 2013 Budget Plan Reduces Revenue by Trillions, Makes Permanent 78 Percent of Bush Tax Cuts -- 02/14/2012
• National Priorities Project & CTJ: The Cost of the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich -- 10/14/2011
• Policy Options to Raise Revenue by Eliminating or Reducing Tax Subsidies for Wealthy Individuals and Profitable Businesses -- 09/19/2011
• President Obama Breaks His Promise on Taxes Again -- 08/02/2011
• "Gang of Six" Plan Would Reduce Revenue and Encourage Corporate Tax Dodging -- 07/20/2011
• Both Sides of Debt Ceiling Talks Propose Increasing the Budget Deficit -- 07/14/2011
• U.S. Is One of the Least Taxed Developed Countries -- 06/30/2011
• House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's Goal Is to Shrink Government, Not the Deficit -- 04/08/2011
• CTJ Op-Ed: Sorry, Newt. You Never Balanced the Budget -- 03/15/2011
• CTJ Director Robert McIntyre's Testimony on Business Tax Subsidies -- 03/09/2011
• President Obama's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Would Make Permanent 81 Percent of the Bush Tax Cuts -- 02/18/2011
• CTJ's Statement on the Presidential Fiscal Commission's Plan -- 12/02/2010
• How to Enact (and Maintain) Tax Reform -- 10/26/2010
• Holtz-Eakin Peddles Myths about the Bush Tax Cuts -- 07/16/2010
• Rep. Ryan's House GOP Budget Plan: Federal Government Would Collect $2 Trillion Less Over a Decade and Yet Require Bottom 90 Percent to Pay Higher Taxes -- 03/09/2010
• President Obama's FY2011 Budget: Federal Government Should Collect at Least as Much Revenue as Obama Proposes -- 02/10/2010
• Judging Tax Expenditures: Review is Needed for Spending Programs Burried Within the Tax Code -- 11/13/2009
• President Obama's Proposals to Raise Revenue -- 05/15/2009
• Update on House GOP Budget Plan -- 04/02/2009
• National Organizations Sign Letter Urging Senate to Reject Budget Amendment that Would Further Cut the Estate Tax -- 03/30/2009
• House GOP Leaders' Budget Plan: Poor Pay More and Rich Pay Less Under Plan that Costs $300 Billion More Annually than President's Plan -- 03/27/2009
• Tax Proposals in President Obama's First Budget [Revised 3/18/2009 to Include New State-by-State Estimates] -- 03/18/2009
• Principles for Progressive Taxation During a Recession -- 12/04/2008
• House Proposal to Pay for AMT Relief by Closing Loopholes Would Make the Tax Code Fairer and Avoid Increasing the Deficit -- 06/20/2008
• Bush Administration Demands that Congress Increase the Deficit with Tax Breaks for Business -- 05/23/2008
• Capital Gains and Dividends Tax Cuts Offer Almost No Benefit to Middle-Income Americans and Add to the Nation's Fiscal Problems -- 05/13/2008
• House Budget Plan Deals with Tax Policy in a More Responsible Way than the Senate Version -- 03/20/2008
• Bush's Proposed Budget Cuts Show the Price of the Bush Tax Cuts -- 02/08/2008
• Recently Passed Budget Resolutions Do Not Increase Taxes Despite Accusations of "Biggest Tax Increase in History" -- 04/02/2007
• The Bush Tax Cuts So Far and the President's Proposed New Tax Cuts: Testimony of Bob McIntyre -- 03/06/2007
• Bush's Alleged "Balanced Budget" Plan for 2012 - In Brief: Bogus -- 02/06/2007
• Testimony of CTJ Executive Director Bob McIntyre on the "Tax Gap" Before Senate Budget Committee -- 01/23/2007
• House Revives PAYGO -- But Congress Must Still Resist Budget-Breaking Tax Proposals -- 01/10/2007
• How Big is the Deficit-- Really? -- 10/20/2006
• Notes on the Latest Federal Budget Estimates: Don't Be Deceived by the Bush Administration's Spin -- 07/11/2006
• Congress Considers Budget Rules To Slash Services While Protecting Tax Breaks for the Rich -- 06/29/2006
• CBO Projects $8.5 Trillion in Borrowing over Next Decade Under Bush Policies -- 01/26/2006
• Bush Funding 25% of Non-Social Security Spending This Year with Borrowed Money -- 01/23/2006
• New CBO Report Shows Bleak Fiscal Forecast -- 12/22/2005
• Bush Budget Calls for Giant New Tax Cuts, Huge Reductions in Most Federal Programs -- 02/07/2005
• Bush's $10 Trillion Borrowing Binge: An Update -- 01/27/2005
• Details of the Administration's Budget Proposals -- 02/03/2004
• Bush Still on Track to Borrow $10 Trillion by 2014 -- 01/30/2004
• We're Paying Dearly for Bush's Tax Cuts -- 09/23/2003
• Bush's $10 Trillion Borrowing Binge -- 09/11/2003
• Bush to Fund a Third of Non-Social Security Spending This Year With Borrowed Money -- 06/12/2003
• Administration Proposal to Accelerate Income Tax Cuts Would Overwhelmingly Benefit the Wealthy -- 10/05/2001
• How Large Is the Available Budget Surplus? -- 03/14/2001
• How the Reagan Budget Deficits Became Today's Surpluses -- 03/12/2001
• Tom DeLay's Attempt to Rewrite History -- 03/09/2001