CRFB Reacts to the Paul Ryan Budget Proposal

    64+ Experts Join 64 Senators in Calling for Comprehensive Deficit Reduction

    Social Security and the Budget

    CRFB's Table of Deficit Reduction Plans

CRFB Reacts to the Paul Ryan Budget Proposal
CRFB Reacts to the Paul Ryan Budget Proposal

 

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) recently released his FY 2012 budget proposal. In our press release reacting to his budget, we offer brief analysis and commentary.

 

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64+ Experts Join 64 Senators in Calling for Comprehensive Deficit Reduction
64+ Experts Join 64 Senators in Calling for Comprehensive Deficit Reduction

 More than 64 budget experts and economists sent President Obama and Congressional leadership a letter urging them to show leadership on reducing the deficit, joining the 64 Senators who sent a similar letter on March 18th.

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Social Security and the Budget
Social Security and the Budget

 

In CRFB's latest policy paper, we look at Social Security's interaction with the federal budget and how future projections of the program's costs and income will affect it. We argue that Social Security can be viewed as either a stand-alone program with dedicated revenues or one that is part of the overall budget. Either view is correct, and both point urgently to the need for reform.

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CRFB's Table of Deficit Reduction Plans
CRFB's Table of Deficit Reduction Plans

 

In recent weeks, we have seen a number of plans aimed at addressing our fiscal challenges. CRFB has just updated a comparison table of all the various plans, and also has an analysis of common themes. To see the full comparison table, click here.

 


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Press Releases

April 5, 2011
CRFB Reacts to the Paul Ryan Budget Proposal
March 31, 2011
More Than 64 Experts Join 64 Senators in Calling for President and Leadership to Act on Debt and Deficit
March 31, 2011
Letter from 64+ Experts to the President and Congressional Leadership
March 30, 2011
Blue Dogs Issue Benchmarks for Fiscal Reform
March 18, 2011
CRFB Thrilled to See 64 Senators Calling for Comprehensive Deficit Reduction
February 14, 2011
CRFB Reacts to the President's FY 2012 Budget
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Reports

March 24, 2011
Social Security and the Budget
March 22, 2011
Op-Ed: Fix the Deficit? We Can Do That
March 21, 2011
Op-Ed: Deficit Pessimist Sees Hope for a Deal
March 18, 2011
CBO's Analysis of the President's FY2012 Budget
March 15, 2011
Testimony on Enhancing the President's Authority to Eliminate Wasteful Spending and Reduce the Budget Deficit
March 10, 2011
America's Fiscal Choices at a Crossroad
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Let's Get Specific

The Let’s Get Specific series is intended to help focus the national discussion on specific policies that could help to reduce the deficit and create a better understanding of the types of policy changes that will be required.

  

Let's Get Specific: Social Security

 

Let's Get Specific: Health Care

 

Let's Get Specific: Tax Expenditures

 

Full List of LGS Papers

 

CRFB's Blog: The Bottom Line

April 5, 2011
Sens. Wyden and Coats Introduce Tax Reform Legislation

Today, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Dan Coats (R-IN) introduced bipartisan legislation to comprehensively reform the existing U.S. tax system in a revenue-neutral manner. The "Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2011" fundamentally reforms the U.S.

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April 5, 2011
Paul Ryan Unveils FY 2012 Budget

Today, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), chairman of the House Budget Committee, unveiled his FY 2012 budget proposal. His budget would bring debt down to 67.5 percent of GDP by 2021 and would reduce the deficit by over $4.4 trillion over the next ten years when compared to CBO's score of the President's budget.

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April 5, 2011
CBO Releases Long-Term Analysis of Ryan's Proposal

In response to Representative Paul Ryan's (R-WI) FY 2012 Budget proposal, CBO has released a long-term analysis of the proposal. The analysis, which includes the numbers reflected in Ryan's proposal released today, also goes into the policy effects of the various reforms he is offering and the long-term effects of his proposal.

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April 5, 2011
Rep. Quigley Promotes Budget Process Reform

In a reprise of last year, Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) recently reintroduced his bill to create a more transparent budget regime and reform the federal budget process.

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Stabilize the U.S. Debt: An Online Exercise in Hard Choices

May 19, 2010
As Congress Sidesteps Budget, You Can Step In

CRFB encourages you to check out our budget simulator: Stabilize the Debt!

It's no secret that America's finances are a mess. The problem of our mounting debt can't be solved overnight, but we need to start addressing it now. In this online simulator, visitors get to make the hard choices themselves in order to stabilize the debt at 60% of GDP by 2018.

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April 2, 2010
CRFB Launches A Featured Charts Page!

CRFB would like to introduce our "Featured Charts" page where we will highlight important fiscal, economic, health care, and entitlement projection data in clear, interactive, and sharable graphs. CRFB will update these charts continuously as new data becomes available.

We encourage you to share any or all of these charts on your own websites and/or blogs. These charts will automatically update on your site even after you embed them. We hope this becomes a resource for anyone searching for important fiscal data.

 

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Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform

The bipartisan Peterson-Pew Commission is made up of the country's most seasoned federal budget policymakers. The commission is supported by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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Stimulus.org

CRFB's Stimulus.org is a detailed database of government actions taken to deal with the U.S. financial and economic crisis.  Users can view the amount spent on various government programs as well as their deficit impact.

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