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Paving the Way for Sustainable Highway Financing

Congress faces yet another deadline, and yet again is set to stall. This time, there literally could be a bumpy road ahead. The current legislation authorizing highway and mass-transit spending is...

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Deficit Shrinks, but We're Not Out of the Woods

For a change, there is actually some good news in fiscal policy. Late last week, the Department of Treasury reported that the budget deficit in 2015 fell to $439 billion. That's about a 10 percent drop...

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Candidates' Numbers Must Add Up

Although ballots are being cast and the field is narrowing, voters still don't know a lot about what the presidential candidates would do in the White House. This is especially true when it comes to...

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Candidates, Stop Perpetuating Social Security Myths. Start Offering Solutions.

There’s an old saying that Social Security is the third rail of American politics — touch it and you die. That’s unfortunate, given that Social Security is on a path towards insolvency; failure to...

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Both Clinton and Trump Would Grow National Debt

Our national debt is at post-war record-high levels and projected to grow unsustainably. And neither former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton nor businessman Donald Trump would reverse course — Trump,...

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Three Smart Reforms in Trump's Budget

There is a lot to criticize in President Trumps first full budget. It is based on phony economic growth assumptions; omits what could be a multi-trillion-dollar tax plan; practically ignores the...

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