Two months ago, the House adopted a budget resolution that outlines the Republican majority's ambitious plans to slow the growth of federal entitlement spending. If implemented properly, entitlement spending restraint can address the long-term fiscal imbalance in a way that promotes economic growth and freedom.

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The proposal, which failed in the Senate, resembles the alternative minimum tax (AMT) in one way -- it was...

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Alan D. Viard, a resident scholar at AEI, reviews the budget outlook, the need for tax reform and the benefits of moving to a progressive consumption tax. He also discusses his forthcoming book, Progressive Consumption Taxation: The X Tax Revisited, which he coauthored with Robert Carroll of Ernst & Young. The book will be published by AEI Press in the Spring.

In anticipation of President Obama's budget reform speech on Wednesday, April 13, several AEI scholars will be available to comment on the economic and political implications of the speech: Andrew Biggs, John H. Makin, Vincent Reinhart, Alan Viard, Michael Barone, Karlyn Bowman, and Norman J. Ornstein.

As budget negotiations between Democrats and Republicans stall, the possibility of a government shutdown on March 4 rapidly increases.

The plan presented here represents the collaboration of its four authors and does not reflect the position of the American Enterprise Institute or any other organization. The individual authors do not fully agree with every provision of the plan, but we join in presenting it as a way to address the fiscal imbalance while promoting economic growth.

At first glance, the new debt-ceiling law looks like a missed opportunity to address our nation's most pressing fiscal challenge. Fortunately, the opportunity to tackle this problem hasn't been lost, only deferred.