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Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
Can You Make a Dent in the Fiscal Gap by Taxing the Top 1%?
Republican candidate Ben Carson claimed during the debate, "You can take everything from the top 1% and you apply it to our fiscal gap, and you won't...
Launching Fiscal FactCheck & Live-Tweeting the #CNBCGOPDebate
We are pleased to launch the Fiscal FactCheck series, a project of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Beginning during tonight’s...
Would a 3-Year Spending Freeze Balance the Budget?
Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson has frequently talked about constraining the growing national debt, and this summer said that "you could...
Do Tax Loopholes Cost American Taxpayers $1.4 Trillion a Year?
In the undercard debate, Former Gov. George Pataki (R-NY) said tax loopholes “cost American taxpayers $1.4 trillion a year.” Pataki is referring to...
Does the Budget Deal Allow Obama To Borrow Unlimited Amounts?
In the Republican debate, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said the recent budget deal “allows President Obama to borrow unlimited amounts of money.” Paul is...
Does the Budget Deal Take $150 Billion From Social Security and Spend It Elsewhere?
In discussing the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 – the budget deal that is working its way through Congress – former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) said...
Does the Average Worker Pay $100,000 in Medicare Taxes and Receive $350,000 in Benefits?
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said during the debate that the average worker will pay $100,000 in Medicare taxes and receive $350,000 in benefits. According...
Bush Proposes Social Security and Medicare Reform Plan
This blog is part of a series of " Policy Explainers" for the 2016 presidential election, where we explain some of the candidates' policy proposals...
Budget Deal Truly Offsets Only Half Its Cost
Lawmakers are currently considering a budget deal that would increase appropriated spending, suspend the debt limit until March 2017, reallocate...
Florida Governor Jeb Bush Proposes Social Security And Medicare Reform Plan
Today, Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush unveiled a new plan – among the most detailed we have seen so far from...
Washington Post Praises Rigell Sequester Plan
Over the weekend, the Washington Post editorial board wrote a piece praising the sequester plan that Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) released last week. The...
Alan Simpson & Maya MacGuineas: Too much debt, not enough solutions
Alan Simpson is a former Republican senator from Wyoming, former co-chair of the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission, and a member of the Committee for a...