The Tax Reform Tradeoff: Eliminating Tax Expenditures, Reducing Rates
The paper puts real numbers behind different scenarios for a structure for tax reform: eliminating income tax expenditures to enable lower tax rates.
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The paper puts real numbers behind different scenarios for a structure for tax reform: eliminating income tax expenditures to enable lower tax rates.
How do the House Budget and the President’s Budget differ?
After months of negotiations, with default looming, Congress passed and the President signed the Budget Control Act of 2011, which raises the debt ceiling and puts a process in place for reducing the deficit.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/peter-g-peterson-foundation-analysis-of-the-budget-control-act-of-2011
A look at the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, on the 40th anniversary of its passage.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/q-and-a-congressional-budget-and-impoundment-control-act-of-1974
If lawmakers do not agree on raising or suspending the debt limit before the extraordinary measures are exhausted, there would be severe consequences.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2023/06/debt-ceiling-update-whats-at-stake
Higher short- and long-term Treasury rates mean that the federal government's borrowing costs will also rise.
Policymakers should build on the bipartisanship of this Act to work towards passing fiscal reforms that will put our nation on a sustainable fiscal path.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/understanding-the-bipartisan-budget-act-of-2015
The chairman's budget proposes a distinct change in the future role of government.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/analysis-of-chairman-ryan%E2%80%99s-2013-budget-proposal
All three budget plans achieve deficit reduction within the 10-year window relative to current law, though they make different choices on revenues and spending levels for particular programs and achieve different results.
President Obama's budget keeps the debt from rising as a share of the economy, but it does not address the key drivers of our long-term unsustainable debt.