Blog
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.
CBO Really, Really Makes the Case For Strict Pay-As-You-Go Budgeting
Based on CBO's Long Term Outlook, one could conclude solely based on the debt levels projected that either we were headed on a sustainable path, with...
Fiscal Fact Checker (Revisited): CBO's Record on Scoring the Affordable Care Act
Critics of CBO scoring like to cite past predictions that widely missed the mark. Sometimes, too, critics compare apples to oranges, and that is the...
CRFB Comments on the CBO Outlook
CRFB's newest paper dives into the set of projections underlying CBO's Long Term Budget Outlook. The report shows two very divergent paths for the...
Line Items: Summertime Edition
Heat Is On – Summer had its traditional kick-off with Memorial Day weekend and the temperatures in DC rose to the occasion. If only the same could be...
CBO's Long Term Outlook Has Arrived
The much-anticipated CBO Long-Term Budget Outlook has been released this morning, projecting what the budget will look like over the next 75 years...
The Facts on Social Security Reform and Intergenerational Equity
UPDATED: The table now also includes average scheduled benefits in 2050. A scuffle between Social Security advocacy groups and Fiscal Commission co...
Bill Bradley Joins the Announcement Effect Club
Already a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, former Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ) joined another exclusive club over the weekend: the Announcement...
A Broken Tax Code
The IRS's Spring 2012 Bulletin has a report, as required by law, by Justin Bryan reporting that 20,752 tax returns for people with adjusted gross...
Should Tax Reform 'Go Long'?
Go long or go prudent? These are the competing views of tax reform, according to Howard Gleckman in a Tax Policy Center blog post. He sums up the...
The Sequester and War Spending
An article in The Hill warns that war spending may be in jeopardy because of the sequester. Apparently, the Pentagon has reversed its position on the...
Dynamic Scoring Explained
What is dynamic scoring? How are legislative proposals currently scored? CRFB's latest policy paper details the process and methods that the...
Social Security Disability Insurance Should Not Be Ignored
Brian Faler of Bloomberg has an article about the unwillingness of lawmakers to address Social Security's Disability Insurance program. Although the...