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In considering whether to pass a bill, Congress relies on the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to estimate, or “score,” the effects the proposed legislation would have on tax revenues and government spending.

The wave of state video franchise reform legislation, beginning in Texas and improved in Indiana, continues this year in many states, and the benefits are already apparent.

Question: When does not raising a tax increase state revenue? Answer: When other states are increasing that tax.

The World Health Organization has released new figures that show that polio cases are rising in Pakistan.

The New York Times recently released a poll showing that a majority wants the government to guarantee health insurance coverage to every American.

We will not get personal retirement accounts through tax increases, or cuts in future promised benefits. Quite the contrary, it was including these options on the table that actually killed the campaign for personal accounts. So it is those would-be reformers who misled the President down this pain caucus highway who should be held responsible for any future tax increases that will result due to the failure of reform now.
The only way to achieve personal accounts is to go back to the positive, populist reform model on which George Bush was elected. Propose a specific personal account plan, without tax increases or benefit cuts, that obviously benefits working people overwhelmingly. Then take that over the heads of the Washington establishment directly to the people, as Reagan did so successfully.

Over the years there have been many attempts to ensure communications interoperability for state and local emergency first responders such as police, fire, and ambulance services.

So you think Social Security is facing an unfunded liability crisis? Well, you’re right.

It is commonly asserted by the CopyLeft crowd that intellectual property protections have recently been expanded to such a degree that the public domain is under threat.

You know how when you squeeze a balloon it just pops out some place out? And then you squeeze it there and out pops a different bulge? That’s what’s happening in earmark reform.