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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Peterson Report Calls for Fiscal Balancing Act
In the context of a middling U.S. economic recovery, several commentators have argued that we should ignore deficit reduction in order to pursue...
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TPC Examines Options to Change Retirement Savings Incentives
The Tax Policy Center and Urban Institute have issued a new report entitled "Flattening Tax Incentives for Retirement Saving." Authors Barbara Butrica...
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Buying Time for a Highway Solution with General Funds
Our recent paper Trust or Bust: Fixing the Highway Trust Fund called on lawmakers to identify a long-term fix to the funding gap in the Highway Trust...
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Administration Releases FY 2015 War Spending Request
The Obama Administration yesterday released the details of its request for war spending (Overseas Contingency Operations, or OCO), with a grand total...
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Why Lawmakers Should Fix the Budgetary Treatment of the Highway Trust Fund
Continuing our series of transportation-focused blogs, this blog discusses the budgetary treatment of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF). While most of the...
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Restoring Highway Solvency with New Revenue Sources
As we approach the twin deadlines to reauthorize surface transportation spending and shore up the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), policymakers should note...
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Can You Do Better Than DC Lawmakers?
Over the past few years, lawmakers have engaged in a series of budget showdowns trying to avoid fiscal speed bumps and reduce deficits. However, debt...
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Senate Finance Committee Discussing Highway Patch
The Senate Finance Committee is beginning a markup of a short-term patch to the Highway Trust Fund, providing funding through the end of the year...
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Cost of Ways & Means Tax Cuts Passes the Trillion Dollar Mark
The Ways & Means Committee today marked up new and extended tax breaks costing more than $210 billion of lost revenue and increased outlays over the...
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CBO Releases Score of Postal Reform Act
CBO published its score of the Postal Reform Act of 2013 (H.R. 2748), a bill introduced by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), on...
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MY VIEW: Jim Nussle
Jim Nussle, Co-Chair of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007-2009...
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Finance Committee Considers Short Term Highway Extension
As we've been writing about various ways to improve the state of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), the Senate Finance Committee has been discussing...