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CRFB's Blog: The Bottom Line
The wait is finally over. Tonight in Denver will be the first of the three presidential debates, and there will be an opportunity to hear directly from the candidates about their plans to take on our federal debt problem.
Yesterday the group Taxpayers for Common Sense released a report with over $2 trillion in deficit reduction. The report, "Sliding Past the Sequester," takes up the task of the Super Committee and puts forth a list of cuts to programs or measures that they deem are "inefficient, ineffective, or wasteful," adding up to $800 billion beyond the Super Committee's original requirement.
In the fourth and final event in the series Strengthening of America, "The Imperative of Entitlement and Health Care Cost Growth," former Members of Congress joined budget and health experts to discuss entitlement reform and controlling federal health care costs. As we've explained many times before, health care cost growth projections far exceed growth in all other areas of federal spending.
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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.
Check out CRFB's Fiscal Plan Comparison Tool!
The Comparison Tool is an interactive website that allows users to compare up to 3 fiscal plans side-by-side. A countless number of budgets or fiscal plans have been released in the past year and a half, and our new website is an easy way to compare and keep track of them.
CRFB Projects
The Campaign to Fix the Debt is an unprecended and bipartisan coalition that seeks to mobilize members of business, government, and policy communities to urge Congress and the President to enact a comprehensive debt deal.
U.S. Budget Watch is a project of CRFB designed to increase awareness of the important fiscal issues facing the country. Throughout the 2012 campaign, U.S. Budget Watch will provide non-partisan and independent analysis of proposals that have significant fiscal impacts.
The Moment of Truth (MOT) project is a non-profit, non-partisan effort that seeks to foster honest discussion about the nation’s fiscal challenges, the difficult choices that must be made to solve them, and the potential for bipartisan compromise that can move the debate forward and set our country on a sustainable path.
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Jim Nussle
Timothy Penny
Charlie Stenholm
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Maya MacGuineas
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Barry Anderson
Erskine Bowles
Charles Bowsher
Steve Coll
Dan Crippen
Vic Fazio
Bill Gradison, Jr.
William H. Gray, III
William Hoagland
James Jones
Lou Kerr
Jim Kolbe
James T. McIntyre, Jr.
David Minge
June O'Neill
Paul O'Neill
Marne Obernauer, Jr.
Robert Packwood
Rudolph Penner
Peter G. Peterson
Robert Reischauer
Alice Rivlin
Charles Robb
Martin Sabo
Alan K. Simpson
John Spratt
Eugene Steuerle
David Stockman
John Tanner
Laura Tyson
George Voinovich
Paul Volcker
Carol Cox Wait
David Walker
Joseph R. Wright, Jr.
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Robert Strauss