Obama's Budget vs. Medical Innovation -
Alzheimer's Disease costs the U.S. economy over $200 billion per year, about $140 billion of which is a direct federal budgetary cost to Medicare and Medicaid. On our present cours...
Obama's New Budget Drops the Best Part -
There is a lot not to like in the new budget recently released by President Barack Obama. The nearly $1 trillion in higher taxes would only serve to impede economic growth,...
Health Care Cost Slowdown Is Good for Our Budget -
Over the last five years, the growth of health-care spending in the United States has slowed dramatically – to the lowest rate in the past 50 years. The slowdown is not a sur...
U.S. Should Stop Budgeting for One Year at a Time -
The U.S. budget process has become increasingly dysfunctional, a large factor in Standard and Poor’s downgrading the U.S. sovereign credit rating in 2011. Budgets were always ...
Greenstein: Obama's Budget Yields Big Health Care Savings -
Commentators, pundits, and some policymakers routinely say that while the President’s new budget takes useful steps to reduce the cost of health care programs, the steps are smal...
Medicare Savings the Obama Budget Proposal Overlooks -
Sometimes patients forget to take their meds or choose to skip doses to save a little money. If this sounds like only a casual oversight, a small inconvenience, or an unfo...
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On the Budget, Obama's Opening Bid Was Reasonable - Ron Haskins, RCM
It would be difficult to imagine an uglier process of enacting legislation on important issues than the last two years of attempts by federal policymakers to reduce the si...
Obama's Budget: Courageous, Realistic - Michael Spence, Project Syndicate
The world’s developed economies, of which the United States is by far the largest and systemically most important, face a range of difficult political and social choices. Preside...
Obama's Budget: As Good As It Gets - Joseph Minarik, Back in the Black
President Obama submitted his fiscal year 2014 budget on April 10. Some have criticized the President on the ground that the budget was more than two months late. (Th...
Obama's Budget Is Full of Recycled Ideas - National Taxpayers Union
Sixty-five days late, and more than 5 trillion dollars short – that’s how the National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) characterized yesterday’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget pro...
Obama's Budget Offers More of the Same - J. Capretta, National Review
Obama's Remarks on His 2014 Budget - White House
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. Please, please have a seat. Well, as President, my top priority is to do everything I can to reignite what I consider to b...
Obama's Budget for 2014 Fiscal Year - White House
The President’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget demonstrates that we can make critical investments to strengthen the middle class, create jobs, and grow the economy while continuing ...
Obama's Budget a Strong Starting Point for Negotiations - Concord Coalition
The Concord Coalition said today that President Obama’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2014 provides a credible framework for the bipartisan negotiations that are needed to curb...
A Travesty of a Budget - Yuval Levin, National Review
Looking at the overall outline of the budget President Obama proposed on Wednesday makes it easy enough to see why the White House chose to leak in advance the fact that the presi...
Budget Guru Greenstein on Obama: Little Room To Maneuver - CBPP
Obama's Budget: A Re-Run of His Worst Ideas - D. Holtz-Eakin, Politico
Exciting as watching paint dry — that’s the usual assessment of a budget document. And Wednesday’s release of President Barack Obama’s budget promis...
Should California Let Stockton Go Bankrupt? - S. Eide, RealClearPolicy
The Sleight of Hand of Budget Politics - William Poole, Wall Street Journal
President Obama will release his overdue budget on Wednesday. It will doubtless project a reduction in the federal budget deficit—a projection that journalists, commentators ...
The GOP's Budget Demands Are a Joke - Robert Greenstein, CBPP
In an attempt to reignite efforts to reach a bipartisan budget compromise, President Obama’s new budget will adhere to his final offer to House Speaker John Boehner of Dece...
A Bipartisan, Common Sense Budget Fix - Rep. Cheri Bustos, No Labels
Like many people across our great country, I learned at a young age that balancing the family budget and living within our means is a question of values....
Republicans Shouldn't Disparage Their Budget Wonks - A. Shlaes, Examiner
What's with the green eyeshades?...
Obama's Budget Should Support Charters - Nina Rees, Wall Street Journal
President Obama will soon release his federal budget for 2014, and a top priority is likely to be early-childhood education, particularly for the poor. But will the proposal seek m...
Progressives Won't Give Honest Critique of Ryan's Budget - Economics21
There is nothing more frustrating to progressive commentators than seeing Chairman Paul Ryan’s 2014 Budget Proposal afforded the respect it is due by nonpartisan ob...
Dems Hurt by Their Tax-and-Spend Budget - Ed Morrissey, Fiscal Times
Perhaps every political party has to spend some time becoming a parody of itself in order to learn a lesson. Republicans certainly learned a lesson from 2012’s theme of “the ...
The 50 Percent Solution - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The proposition that entitlement curbs are the key to maintaining national solvency is widely accepted, though not by many congressional Democrats. President Obama, however, has en...
To Balance the Budget, Paul Ryan Needs Obamacare - Avik Roy, Forbes
Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.), Chairman of the House Budget Committee, has made the remarkable appear boring. Four years ago, the idea that House Republicans would pass a bill reformi...
Government, or Retirement Home? - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
How the GOP Can Win the Middle Ground - Reihan Salam, Reuters
This week, House Republicans and Senate Democrats released budget resolutions that illustrate the chasm that separates the two parties....
Comparing All the Budget Plans, in Charts - CRFB
Throughout this week we have done a lot of analysis of budget resolutions as they have been released, breaking down many aspects of their policies and estimates. Now it's time to ...
The Boilerplate Gap - Michael Gerson, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON -- It would be a mistake to confuse a budget proposal for a proposed budget, though they bear a superficial resemblance. A budget proposal -- of the type that Paul Rya...
House Progressives' Budget Deserves Attention - George Zornick, Nation
Paul Ryan’s recently released budget will not become law—at least not any time soon. The Democratic Senate would never pass it, President Obama would never sign it. R...
Ryan's Budget Cuts Investments in America's Future - CAP
House Republican Budget Proposes $1.2 Trillion in Cuts to Investment Critical for Economic Growth...
Budget Plans Are on the Table. Time to Make a Deal - Concord Coalition
Today the Senate Budget Committee considered the budget resolution that Chairman Patty Murray released yesterday. The blueprint calls for a mix of spending cuts and tax inc...
Senate Budget for 2014 - Senate Budget Committee
The Fiscal Year 2014 Senate Budget builds on the work done over the last two years to create jobs, invest in broad-based economic growth, and tackle our deficit and debt responsibl...
We're Ignoring Our Most Basic Responsibility - Rep. Reid Ribble, No Labels
One of the most important things Washington is supposed to do every year is pass a budget. But you wouldn’t guess that from the way some people around here continually igno...
No, Budgets Aren't Like Family Finances - Niraj Chokshi, National Journal
When Paul Ryan unveiled the Republican budget this week, he leaned on a familiar analogy: the household budget. In pushing the goal of balancing the federal budget within 10 year...
Ryan's Budget Relies on Unrealistic Assumptions - Concord Coalition
WASHINGTON -- While supporting the goal of returning balance to the nation’s finances, The Concord Coalition said today that the ambitious 10-year budget plan released by Hou...
Ryan's Budget Would Be Devastating for Women - Bryce Covert, The Nation
You’d have to be living under a rock to miss the news on Saturday morning that Mitt Romney has picked Congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate. The announcement immediate...
Paul Ryan's Budget Proposal for 2014 - Committee on the Budget
The Details of Paul Ryan's Budget - Adler, Akabas, & Brian Collins, BPC
Budget Guru Bob Greenstein on Ryan: 'Reverse Robin Hood' - CBPP
Paul Ryan Takes the Right Step - Michael Tanner, National Review
Paul Ryan Has Learned Nothing - Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
Paul Ryan has released his new budget proposal, "The Path to Prosperity." It looks almost exactly like his old budget proposal....
The Budget Debate, Simplified - Steve Conover, The American
In the debate over government spending, two main schools of thought dominate airtime, but an honest account should include two more — today’s moderates and yesterday...
What a 'Balanced Approach' Means - Noelle Clemente, RealClearPolicy
Transfers to Old Folks Are Ruining America - Holzer & Sawhill, WaPo
Foolish, indiscriminate and badly timed cuts in the federal budget have begun. The primary reason is that Republicans have refused to budge any further on taxes. Still, Democr...
Ways for Paul Ryan to Achieve a Balanced Budget - J. Sahadi, CNN Money
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan will release the latest version of his budget proposal on Tuesday....
GOP's Budget Leads to Political Disaster - Boak & Pianin, Fiscal Times
President Obama has pledged to help the Democrats win back control of the House in 2014, but it might just be the GOP promise to balance the budget in ten years that hands them a v...
Nations Should Build Up Asset Portfolios - M. Spence, Project Syndicate
MILAN – Until recently, relatively little attention was paid to states’ balance sheets. Measurement and reporting were neglected. Even today, states’ liabilitie...