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.
The Zero Plan Re-Emerges in the Tax Reform Debate
According to press reports today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are about to take a very...
MY VIEW: Alice Rivlin June 2013
In an article from The New England Journal of Medicine, CRFB board member Alice Rivlin along with former Senators Tom Daschle, Pete Domenici, and...
The Social Security and Medicare Trustee Reports in Charts
The projections in the latest Medicare and Social Security Board of Trustees Report were further proof of the need to reform these important...
MY VIEW: Laura Tyson June 26 2013
With the G8 summit over and the G20 summit approaching, CRFB board member and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors Laura Tyson takes a...
Congress Gets a Late Penalty for Student Loans
Up next on the list of Fiscal Speed Bumps is the July 1 deadline upon which the 3.4 percent interest rate for subsidized Stafford loans is set to...
Don't Use the Immigration Reform Bill as a Slush Fund
The Congressional Budget Office's cost estimate of the Senate's immigration bill attracted a great deal of attention due to the $197 billion in...
Modernizing the Medicare Benefit
Today, the Moment of Truth Project has released a new report," Modernizing the Medicare Benefit: A Closer Look at Reforming Medicare Cost-Sharing...
Another Potential Bipartisan Health Care Reform
While reforming entitlement programs continues to be a critical challenge for policymakers, recent developments suggest that bipartisan support for...
Recreating the Second Decade: CBO's Immigration Numbers in the Long Term
In our paper on CBO's analysis of the Senate immigration bill, we used CBO's numbers to produce deficit and debt estimates for the next twenty years...
The Analysis of the Analysis: CRFB's Take on CBO's Immigration Estimates
CBO's recent budgetary and economic analyses of the Senate immigration bill have been making waves in the political sphere as lawmakers rush to...
Chamber of Commerce's "Ten Truths" on Entitlements
As we look toward our worrisome long-term outlook, the drivers of future deficits are clear: our growing entitlement programs and an inefficient tax...
CATO Event: "Disability Insurance: The New Welfare?"
Yesterday, the CATO Institute hosted a panel discussion featuring CATO Senior Fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale, MIT economics professor David Autor...