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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The Student Loan Saga Ends?
After weeks of deliberation and two and a half weeks after a key deadline passed, we finally have a deal on student loans. A bipartisan group of...
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MY VIEW: Marc Goldwein July 2013
Should Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) be trimmed? In a recently released CQ Researcher Report focusing on government spending...
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Peterson Foundation Shows Long-Term Problems Remain Unsolved
Why is the long-term debt problem important for the country? And why should lawmakers care about it now? Those are the two main questions the Peterson...
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Retargeting Tax Expenditures
As Senator Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-MI) continue to work through tax reform using their "blank slate"...
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Boskin Underscores the Need for DI Reform
With all of the new developments in tax reform it may be easy to forget about entitlements. But Michael Boskin, former chairman of the Council of...
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Thinking Broadly: TPC's Analysis of Limits on Tax Expenditures
There is a clear consensus across the political spectrum that reforming the tax system will require going after the many tax expenditures that litter...
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Hagel Releases DoD Contingency Plan
The sequester has always been a blunt and mindless way to reduce the deficit, and for the Defense Department, its effects are now clearly being seen...
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Ways and Means Begins Work on Entitlement Reform
Just as they have for tax reform, the House Ways and Means Committee has begun organizing and pressing forward on entitlement reforms, starting with a...
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Tax Reform Can Be an Essential Part of Reducing the Debt
The recent announcement from Senators Baucus and Hatch to pursue tax reform via a "blank slate" approach is incredibly encouraging. As CRFB Board...
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The Mid-Session Review: A Case for Building in Wiggle Room for Ever-Changing Projections
One of the reasons CRFB and other budget hawks have touted the benefits of putting debt on a downward path this decade -- in addition to the economic...
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A Closer Look at the Mid-Session Review
On Monday, the Office of Management and Budget released its re-estimate of the President's Budget in the Mid-Session Review. OMB's new estimates of...
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Tax Reform and the Size of Government
As we begin to enter the dog days of summer, the weather is not the only thing that is heating up. The tax reform debate is beginning to escalate also...