May 18, 2009
2010 Budget Resolution Raises Taxes and Hurts Economic Recovery
By Curtis S. Dubay
(WebMemo #2452)
Congress recently passed the fiscal year 2010 budget resolution, which includes several provisions that will significantly raise taxes and hurt economic recovery.

April 21, 2009
Conservatives Should Have Done More to Increase Long-Term Defense Spending During Budget Resolution Debates
By Mackenzie M. Eaglen
(WebMemo #2402)
The annual congressional budget debate is over, and the House and Senate have passed one-party budget resolutions. A flat--or, worse, a declining--defense budget will come ...

April 13, 2009
Gates' Proposed Missile Defense Cuts: Confusion and Contradictions
By Baker Spring
(WebMemo #2394)
In an April 6 press briefing at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced sweeping changes in a variety of defense modernization. Congress and ...

April 3, 2009
Obama's Proposal to Reduce Charitable Deductions Would Hurt Civil Society, Expand Government
By Ryan Messmore
(WebMemo #2379)
Congress should resist President Obama's proposal to reduce the tax deduction rate on charitable gifts from high-income earners.

April 1, 2009
House Republican Budget Would Confront Hard Choices and Rein in Budget Deficits
By Brian Riedl
(WebMemo #2377)
The House Republican blueprint provides a strong contrast to President Obama’s plan to saddle Americans with historic tax increases, runaway spending, and a doubling of ...

April 1, 2009
Economic Analysis of the House Republican Budget Alternative (H.R. 85): "Report on the Path to American Prosperity"
By Karen A. Campbell, Ph.D.
(White Paper )
On April 1, 2009, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, introduced the House Republican Budget Alternative to budget initiatives ...

April 1, 2009
Budget Proposal Will Raise Taxes, Grow Government, and Cut Defense
By Mackenzie Eaglen
(WebMemo #2373)
The military cannot afford a "modernization depression"—yet that is exactly what is coming.

March 25, 2009
The President's Budget And Medicare
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph. D.
(Testimony )
President Barack Obama has outlined an ambitious and far-reaching health care agenda, including major changes in the Medicare program. It should be noted that even ...

March 25, 2009
Obama's Energy Budget: More Taxes, Higher Prices
By Nicolas Loris and Ben Lieberman
(WebMemo #2361)
Obama's Energy Budget: More Taxes, Higher Prices

March 25, 2009
Obama Budget's Tax Proposals: Wrong and Risky
By J. D. Foster, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2362)
President Obama's budget outlines sweeping changes for federal tax policy. A few of these changes are good policy that ought to be accepted by Congress. ...

March 24, 2009
A First Big Step Toward Medicare Sustainability
By J. D. Foster, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #2253)
Medicare is a vital program for seniors, but is fundamentally unaffordable as it is currently structured because it faces an unfunded obligation of $85.6 trillion. ...

March 18, 2009
Medicare Reform: Setting Attainable Goals for Sustainability
By J. D. Foster, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #2251)
The Treasury Department's general fund subsidizes Medicare by an amount equal to about 1.3 percent of GDP, a large but manageable sum and an apparently ...

March 16, 2009
The Obama Budget: Spending, Taxes, and Doubling the National Debt
By Brian M. Riedl
(Backgrounder #2249)
President Obama has framed his budget as a break from the Bush Administration’s policies. However, Obama’s budget would double the publicly held national debt to ...

March 9, 2009
An Analysis of Federal, State, and Local Homeland Security Budgets
By Matt A. Mayer
(Center for Data Analysis Report #09-01)
Despite a rich history in which states and localities have taken responsibility for their own affairs, we are federalizing more and more of the homeland ...

March 2, 2009
Omnibus Spending Bill: Huge Spending and 9,000 Earmarks Represent Business as Usual
By Brian M. Riedl
(WebMemo #2318)
Even a recession and record $1.4 trillion budget deficit has not altered Congress's business-as-usual culture of spending and pork.

February 27, 2009
The Obama Health Care Budget: Hopeful Savings and Costly Change
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., Nina Owcharenko, and Dennis Smith
(WebMemo #2314)
President Obama's health care budget proposal is large but surprisingly unimaginative.

February 26, 2009
Obama's PAYGO Law Would Not Slow Spending or Budget Deficits
By Brian Riedl
(WebMemo #2312)
PAYGO has proven to be more of a talking point than an actual tool for budget discipline.

February 24, 2009
The Elements of a Responsible Budget Proposal
By Brian M. Riedl, Mackenzie M. Eaglen, Curtis S. Dubay, J. D. Foster, Ph.D., William W. Beach, and Rea S. Hederman, Jr.
(WebMemo #2309)
The President must ensure that his budget proposal protects America’s security abroad and economic security at home.