US Budget Watch - Policy Paper

GOP Presidential Candidate Plan Comparison Tool

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:30:24 +0000

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U.S. Budget Watch has published a qualitative Presidential Candidate Plan Comparison Tool for the last four Republican presidential candidates and their various proposals with fiscal impacts, including long-term proposals for revenues, regulations, Social Security, health care, other spending, and budget processes.

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Primary Numbers: The GOP Candidates and the National Debt

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000

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Click here for an addendum on Governor Romney's 2/22 tax plan.

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U.S. Budget Watch has just released a new report that analyzes how the policy proposals put forth by Speaker Newt Gingrich, Congressman Ron Paul, Governor Mitt Romney, and Senator Rick Santorum will affect the federal budget. The report, Primary Numbers: The GOP Candidates and the National Debt, attempts to measure the debt impact of each candidate's platforms as they have presented them to date.

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The 12 Principles of Fiscal Responsibility for the 2012 Campaign

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:24:00 +0000

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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has officially re-launched U.S. Budget Watch, a project meant to raise awareness of fiscal issues in the 2012 campaign and to provide objective analysis of the candidates' fiscal plans. Our first paper, The 12 Principles of Fiscal Responsibility for the 2012 Campaign, lays our 12 specific principles that all candidates should adhere to.

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Newly Updated Charts Comparing Health Care Reform Bills

Jason Peuquet — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:57:23 +0000

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With new legislation recently released and estimated in the Senate, US BudgetWatch has updated the health care comparison charts and graphs. In this version, we compare, on a number of metrics, the bill being considered in the Senate to the legislation which recently passed the House.

Click here to download the previous version of these charts, which compared the (now-passed) plan put forward by the House Democrats to the House Republican plan and the Senate Finance Committee legislation.

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With new cost estimates for the revised House health care reform bill, CRFB has updated the health care comparisons chart. Read Evaluating Health Care Plans for a full analysis of the three health care reform bills.

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Evaluating Health Care Plans

Jason Peuquet — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:07:43 +0000

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Building on Comparing Health Care Plans, this paper goes beyond simply describing the Senate HELP bill, the House Tri-Committee bill, and the amended Senate Finance bill to offer detailed analysis on their key costs, deficit impacts, and long-term fiscal implications.

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Building on Comparing Health Care Plans, this paper goes beyond simply describing the Senate HELP bill, the House Tri-Committee bill, and the amended Senate Finance billto offer detailed analysis on their key costs, deficit impacts, and long-term fiscal implications.

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Comparing Health Care Plans: A Guide to Reform Proposals

Jason Peuquet — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:52:32 +0000

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While there is broad agreement that health reform is necessary, there is little consensus on what changes are needed. To help the public understand the health care reform debate, this paper focuses on the ten-year costs and savings under the major provisions of the Senate HELP Committee bill, the Finance Committee bill, and the House Tri-Committee bill.

UPDATE: See the latest cost and savings estimates of the amended Finance bill here.

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UPDATE: See the latest cost and savings estimates of the amended Finance bill here.

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The Cost of "Current Policy"

Jason Peuquet — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:50:09 +0000

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The CBO recently projected a ten-year deficit of $7.1 trillion using a "current law" baseline. But these numbers may prove to be optimistic. CRFB argues that four major assumptions in the baseline are unlikely to materialize, leading to a ten-year deficit of $12.6 trillion. This paper discusses US Budget Watch's own "current policy" baseline, which assumes particular policies do not conform to current law.

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Options to Pay for Health Care Reform

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:29:02 +0000

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One of President Obama’s central campaign promises was to reform the national health care system. Existing plans to do so, however, are likely to cost between $1 trillion and $2 trillion over the next decade. In "Options to Pay for Health Care Reform," US Budget Watch offers over 60 tax and spending options which could help pay for the costs of health care reform.

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Comparing the FY2010 Budget Resolutions

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:00:00 +0000

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Last week, the Budget Committees in both the House and Senate reported out their respective versions of the Budget Resolution, to be considered on the House and Senate floors. While each resolution would result in smaller deficit than would the President’s Budget, as estimated by the CBO, we worry that both resolutions contain a number of assumptions that may be difficult to achieve.

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More on the President's FY 2010 Budget Blueprint

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:00:00 +0000

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Although CRFB commends the President for having a specific fiscal goal and for honestly budgeting for expected costs, several items and trends in the budget are troubling. This paper focuses on three main issues: a more aggressive deficit goal would be appropriate; introducing new spending programs and tax cuts before finding ways to close the fiscal gap threatens the principle that Congress set forth to fully offset all new initiatives; and the budget largely fails to address the long-term.

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Analysis of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000

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Today, the President signed the stimulus bill into law. The fiscal stimulus includes $501 billion in increased spending and $286 billion in tax cuts at a total estimated cost of $787 billion. The paper discusses the elements and likely impacts of the stimulus.

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Comparing the Stimulus Packages

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000

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The House stimulus bill costs roughly $820 billion over ten years, while the Senate bill costs $838 billion. Most notably, the Senate version includes more tax cuts and fewer spending provisions and would distribute the funds more quickly than the House bill. This paper discusses these and additional differences between the stimulus bills.

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