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Lawmakers Gather to Talk Deficit, Answers Elusive | The Associated Press

May 16, 2012

The summit is hosted by Pete Peterson, who has staked $1 billion of his Wall Street fortune on a foundation dedicated to educating the public on the perils of the deficit. Peterson's events tend to attract many of the same people time after time, including a number of people who are full-time, professional deficit hawks like Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Bob Bixby of the Concord Coalition.

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5 Key Strategies To Dodge The Looming "Fiscal Cliff" | Wall St. Cheat Sheet

May 15, 2012

If Congress fails to act, the resulting absence of tax cuts and presence of tax hikes could lead to about $7 trillion being taken out of the economy and thrusting us into a recession almost instantly according to Maya MacGuineas, president of the ...

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How To Dodge The Looming “Fiscal Cliff” (Dia, Spy, Iwm, Qqq) | Wall Street Sector Selector

May 14, 2012

If Congress fails to act, the resulting absence of tax cuts and presence of tax hikes could lead to about $7 trillion being taken out of the economy and thrusting us into a recession almost instantly according to Maya MacGuineas, president of the ...

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Hate 'Obamacare?' Keep Tax Cuts? You Do The Budget | USA Today

May 13, 2012

"It gives citizens a chance to see the kind of choices that will be necessary to fix the budget problems we face," says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "It's really hard to do — getting the debt down to a ...

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Big CEOs Push Congress To Forge Deficit Deal To Avoid 'Fiscal Cliff' | Moneynews

May 13, 2012

The CEOs' activity represents "an acknowledgment of the political reality that to get something done everyone is going to have to come together and get out of their boxes," Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, ...

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CEOs Press Congress On Debt | Wall Street Journal

May 10, 2012

The corporate involvement is "an acknowledgment of the political reality that to get something done everyone is going to have to come together and get out of their boxes," said CRFB's president Maya MacGuineas. Without a deal, the Bush-era tax cuts and ...

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Hate Obamacare? Keep Tax Cuts? You Do The Budget | CNBC.com

May 8, 2012

The nonpartisan group Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has come up with a “Stabilize the US Debt” game to give anyone the chance to Step Right Up! – like a game at a carnival — and try their hand at stabilizing the debt. Don't like Obamacare?

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Online Simulator Lets Average Joe Slay U.S. Debt Dragon | Reuters

May 3, 2012

Known as "Stabilize the U.S. Debt," the game created by a bipartisan group of experts, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, will never be as much fun as "Mortal Kombat Komplete," but serious gamers likely would find it just as difficult to master.

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Tax Reform: Cap All Deductions At 2 Percent Of AGI | The Fiscal Times

May 3, 2012

... novel approach was first outlined in a Tax Notes analysis written a year ago by Feldstein, Daniel Feenberg of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Maya MacGuineas, the director of the fiscal policy program at the New America Foundation.

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Try Your Hand At Stabilizing The National Debt | The Consumerist

May 2, 2012

Put together by the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the simulator first asks you to review several big-picture (and big-money) policy issues like whether to renew tax cuts, freeze the sustainable growth rate, or reduce/maintain ...

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