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  • Let's freeze more than chump change (February 2, 2010)
    President Obama has proposed to freeze most domestic discretionary spending -- a step in the right direction, but not enough. The $250 billion in expected savings over the next decade is chump change compared with deficits that could top $10 trillion if policy doesn't change.
  • Desperately Seeking Revenue (January 29, 2010)
    Raising taxes only on the rich won't close our budget deficits, especially if we make the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent.
  • The U.S. is broke. Here's why (January 27, 2010)
    In a USA Today commentary,TPC’s Gene Steuerle explains how "the deficit is only a symptom of a chronic disease that strikes at the very heart of democratic government."
  • State and Local Finance Data Query System (January 26, 2010)
    This system allows the creation of tables of data from the Census of Governments State and Local Finance series. It contains detailed revenue, expenditure, and debt variables for the United States, each of the 50 states, and the District of Columbia, by type of government: state, local, state and local totals, and local government detail. Data are now available for 1977 through 2007.
 
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February 9, 2010