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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Highlights from CBO's New Data on Income Distribution and Taxes
The CBO has updated its data on the distribution of income and taxes. This analysis contains a wealth of data detailing changes in household income...
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SSDI: Challenges beyond its Trust Fund
Henry Aaron – Chair of the Social Security Advisory Board and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution – recently weighed in on the Social...
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Gene Steuerle: Pushing on Air in a Balloon--Health Cost Growth and $1,000 Pills
Dr. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a member of the Committee for a Responsible...
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Updated ISIS Request Should Set Bar for War Spending
As expected, the Obama Administration today issued amendments to its FY 2015 war spending (Overseas Contingency Operations) request, adding $5.6...
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Are Accelerated Write-Off Provisions Effective?
Two of the biggest items among the tax extenders that Congress may consider before the end of the year are two provisions that allow accelerated write...
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The President's Emergency Funding Request on Ebola
The White House this week requested an additional $6.18 billion in discretionary appropriations for the current fiscal year to cover the costs...
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Lame Duck To-Do (and Don't) List
With the 2014 midterm elections mostly in the books, the current Congress will return from weeks of campaigning to finish some remaining items before...
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Former Senators Say that Entitlement Work Remains Unfinished
Over the long term, the country's debt is projected to grow to unsustainable levels. This outlook has not changed for the last two decades, according...
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Happy Halloween From CRFB
Happy Halloween! For the spookiest day of the year (though some might argue that's April 15th), CRFB is thinking about scary costumes and wondering...
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Another Way to Look at the Medicare Slowdown
A recent Health Affairs piece from CRFB's Loren Adler and Adam Rosenberg showed that the prescription drug benefit, Part D, has been responsible for a...
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A Bad Deal on Extenders
As soon as the election is over, the lame duck Congress will be pressed to deal with several pieces of must-pass legislation before the end of the...
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Do Americans Really Favor a Revenue-Only Approach to Social Security Reform?
The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) released a survey last week ( see video of CRFB President Maya MacGuineas at the release event)...