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.
CRFB Looks Toward the Upcoming Fiscal Discussions
On May 19, the debt ceiling was reinstated as the Treasury Department began to use extraordinary measures to prevent running up against the debt limit...
CBO Releases Analysis of the Distributional Impact of Tax Expenditures
The CBO released a paper today analyzing the distributional impact of major tax expenditures on the individual side of the tax code. Considering the...
Tyson on Retirement Savings and Tax Provisions
Today, in a Project Syndicate piece, Laura Tyson examines the state of retirement saving in the U.S. and argues that many retirement saving tax...
The Economist on Entitlement Reform
Notwithstanding the recent short-term progress in reducing the deficit, our long-term debt outlook remains a problem. Although additional revenue will...
Energy and Commerce Dips Its Toe Into the SGR Pool
Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee took a small step in the process to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula -- Medicare's...
6/4 Event: "Challenges Facing Social Security"
On Friday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees will issue their latest report, showing the finances of the two programs and their related trust...
Is a Student Loan Bill Ready to Graduate?
In recent weeks, a number of competing proposals from the parties in each chamber of Congress to reform the interest rates charged on student loans...
CBO Looks at a Carbon Tax
The revenue debate in DC is one that is often focused on the individual income tax system. But one option to raise revenue is to use new taxes that...
The $21 Billion TARP
Yesterday, the CBO released its latest estimate of the subsidy cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The estimate serves as a...
The Time for Social Security Reform is Now
Today, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security held a hearing on bipartisan proposals to reform Social Security. Members of the...
CED Responds to New CBO Projections
As we have written before, the CBO recently released updated projections that show an improvement in the fiscal climate. Based on CRFB’s realistic...
Live: Ways and Means Holds Hearing on Social Security Bipartisan Benefit Reforms
Tune in as the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security will hold a hearing on bipartisan proposals to reform Social Security...