EconomyCommentary
Obama’s Budget Hikes Taxes by $1.6 Trillion
President Obama has proposed a fiscal year 2016 budget that raises $3.5 trillion in fiscal year 2016 and $45 trillion over 10 years. In his budget,… Read More
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A Quick Guide to Obama’s New Budget
As soon as the White House released President Obama’s 2016 budget, Heritage Foundation experts dove into the details. Here’s a peek at some of the… Read More
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Obama Wants to Hike Corporate Taxes to Pay For Infrastructure. Here’s Why That’s a Bad Idea.
It is fitting that President Obama released his 2016 budget on Groundhog’s Day. Like Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors in the famous movie, Obama is… Read More
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What Obama Got Right and Wrong in His 2016 Budget
President Obama released his budget for fiscal year 2016 on Monday. We’ll be continuously updating this story with Heritage Foundation experts’ takes on the budget…. Read More
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Obama Wants to Reverse Sequestration. What You Need to Know.
Four years into the Budget Control Act of 2011, President Obama is expected to once again ask Congress to break its commitment to reduce spending…. Read More
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New Report: Deficit Will Exceed $1 Trillion Before Decade’s End
The new Congressional Budget Office report released today shows deficits and debt rising over the next decade, despite a short-term improvement in the 2015 budget… Read More
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We’ve Been Calculating Budget Scores for Legislation Like Obamacare All Wrong
There is hubris in every government project. The unspoken idea behind bills as comprehensive as the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank is that legislators can… Read More
EconomyNews
There Hasn’t Been One Since 2001. Can This New Budget Chairman Deliver a Balanced Budget?
A balanced budget and health care reform. Those are two things Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., is pledging to deliver as he takes the helm of… Read More
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The Biggest Problem Politicians Are Tempted to Ignore
With so many high-profile, headline-grabbing issues facing the incoming Congress, lawmakers might be tempted to ignore one of the most persistent problems in Washington: overspending…. Read More
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15 Must-See Charts From 2014
From charts on Facebook usage to President Obama’s budget, 2014 was a year for charts, graphs and more charts. Here’s a look at 15 of… Read More
