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champions fiscal responsibility and realistic planning for the economic challenges facing our country in the years ahead. Founded in 1992, by the late former Senator Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.), former Senator Warren B. Rudman (R-N.H.) and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter Peterson, we seek generational responsibility, economic growth, entitlement and tax reform, government accountability and budget process. Former Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Ne.) became co-chair of the Concord Coalition in January 2002.
Composition of Projected FY 2011 Federal Government Revenues and Outlays (Deficit: $1.4 Trillion)
Interest Domestic* Estate & Gift Taxes ($21 billion) Other Taxes Corporate Taxes Social Insurance Taxes Individual Income Taxes
*Includes all appropriated domestic spending such as education, transportation, homeland security, housing assistance, and foreign aid. THE CONCORD COALITION
1971
35% 58% 7%
1991
40% 45% 15%
2011*
2021*
28%
37% 6%
57% 14%
58%
Mandatory
*Projected Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 2011.
Net Interest
Discretionary
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CBO March 2011 Baseline The Concord Coalition Plausible Baseline assumes that discretionary spending grows at the rate of nominal GDP, that war costs slow gradually, that Medicare physician payment cuts are postponed, and that all expiring tax provisions are extended with AMT relief.
Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 2011 and Concord Coalition analysis.
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Percentage of GDP
Assumes that health care cost growth will not exceed GDP growth. Assumes that health care cost growth continues at the average rate for the past 40 years (2.5 percentage points greater than GDP growth.) Assumes that health care cost growth rate declines to 1.0 percentage point greater than GDP growth consistent with the assumption used by the Medicare Trustees.
Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 2010.
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Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Interest Consume All Federal Revenues in Less Than 15 Years
Percentage of Revenues
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Interest
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