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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Leon Panetta: Sequestration Creating Self-Inflicted Wounds
In today's Washington Post, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta criticizes the limited effort so far in replacing sequestration. Panetta...
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Making Disability Insurance Work Better
Naturally, lawmakers are diverting their attention to resolving sequestration, the debt ceiling, and the expiring continuing resolution, but another...
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The Health Exclusion and Employer-Based Insurance
Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released its annual survey on health costs, prompting a wide range of reactions from " Health Care Costs Rise...
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Carter and Weinstein: Look Beyond Ten Years
In an op-ed in POLITICO, former Senate Budget Committee staffer James Carter and Fiscal Commission adviser Paul Weinstein advised lawmakers to look...
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Tax Policy Center: Fewer Americans Pay No Federal Income Tax
One area of controversy in the last election was the percentage of American households that pay no federal income tax, often cited as 47 percent. The...
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Looking Ahead: FY 2014 Issues Creating FY 2015 Uncertainty
When lawmakers return from August recess in a few weeks they will turn their attention to FY 2014 government funding, which requires appropriations to...
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Tax Reform Targets Corporate Breaks
The broad outlines of tax reform have always been clear. Lawmakers trim or eliminate certain tax expenditures and use some or all of the additional...
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The Tax Break-Down: Child Tax Credit
This is the fourth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. The...
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Orlando Sentinel: Make Social Security Part of Budget Solution
While many in Washington are bracing for more partisan brinksmanship in the upcoming negotiations over the debt ceiling and a potential government...
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Latest Peterson Fiscal Confidence Index Shows Little Confidence
The Peterson Foundation has been releasing a Fiscal Confidence Index every month since December of last year, an index which measures public opinions...
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The Tax Break-Down: Preferential Rates on Capital Gains
This is the third post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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Taking a Broader Look at Federal Support for Education
On Friday, we discussed the President's recent speeches on his policy proposals for higher education. With most K-12 schools and university funding...