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.
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Is the U.S. the Highest Taxed Nation in the World?
As he accepted the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump stated that “America is one of the highest-taxed countries in the world,” while...
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The Long-Term Outlook Could Be Even Worse Than CBO Says
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows debt nearly doubling as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the next 30...
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The Very, Very Long-Term Budget Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows growing federal debt over the next 30 years, but we extended those projections to 75...
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What Donald Trump Can Do to Improve His Tax and Spending Policies
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, Donald Trump’s economic advisers Andy Puzder and Stephen Moore stated that the campaign will release changes...
OMB’s Mid-Session Review Confirms Growing Deficits Ahead
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released today the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Mid-Session Review (MSR), which updates both OMB’s budget baseline...
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Chairman Enzi Proposes Budget Process Reforms
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) outlined his recommendations for budget process reform yesterday based on bipartisan discussions in...
Rep. Ribble Releases Legislation to Make Social Security Solvent
Representative Reid Ribble (R-WI) along with a bipartisan group of cosponsors released the Save Our Social Security Act today, a bill which would make...
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Shedding Light on the Fiscal State of the Nation
Representative Jim Renacci (R-OH) along with Representative John Carney (D-DE) and 22 other original cosponsors introduced a bipartisan Fiscal State...
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CBO Shows an Unsustainable Long-Term Fiscal Path
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook, showing a clearly unsustainable long-term path for the federal...
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Scoring Clinton and Trump with Different Growth Assumptions
In our analysis "Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election," we compared the fiscal effects of the policies proposed by presumptive...
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Marc Goldwein: Both Clinton and Trump Would Grow National Debt
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a guest...
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House GOP Sketches Out Details on Tax Reform
The House Republicans continue to rollout several policy proposals/frameworks, recently releasing a tax reform plan that aims to reduce tax rates and...