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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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RATE Coalition Speaks Out For Corporate Tax Reform
The United States has the highest statutory corporate tax rate in the developed world, but substantial revenues are forgone through a variety of tax...
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MedPAC Report Refuels the Need for Medicare Reforms
In its annual June report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) explores a number of reforms that could help improve outcomes...
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CBO Estimates the Senate Immigration Bill
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released two analyses, a cost estimate and an economic analysis, of the Senate's immigration bill -- S.744...
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The Debt Won't Magically Solve Itself
Over the past few weeks, we've seen a common argument in favor of turning away from solving our long-term debt problem due to short-term improvements...
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Lawmakers Not Giving Up on Medicare Reforms
While the latest Medicare Trustees report showed slightly improved projections, the long-term challenges of health care cost growth and population...
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Hiatt: The Progressive Case for Entitlement Reform
Entitlement reform remains essential to the creation of a fiscally sustainable future, but it has been hard for lawmakers to agree on policies to do...
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Holtz-Eakin: Medicare Still Needs Reform
The recent slowdown of health care spending growth is one of the more positive developments in the budget over the past few years. Despite the...