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.
Image
MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas November 19 2012
Not long after her appeal to national leaders to work assiduously towards a bipartisan comprehensive debt-deal, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas makes...
Image
"Go Big" Group Forming Again in the House
President Obama met with Congressional leaders last Friday to begin working toward a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. Reportedly, the talks had an...
Image
Bill Frenzel: Going Off the Fiscal Cliff Is Good Policy—If You Like Unemployment
Former Congressman and CRFB Board Member Bill Frenzel has some advice for the so-called " fiscal cliff divers": don't even think about it! Going off...
Image
Five Fiscal Plans for Consideration
Today, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation held a follow-up event to its 2011 Solutions Initiative, in which policy organizations presented plans to deal...
Image
Softening the Blow on the Charitable Deduction
In a new paper yesterday, we showed how policymakers could raise revenue exclusively from higher earners without increasing rates. Specifically, we...
Image
Alternative Revenue Raisers from High Earners
As was the case two years ago, the 2001/2003 tax cuts will be a hot topic in the lame duck session. Democrats would like to extend the full tax cuts...
Image
The Administrative Side of the Fiscal Cliff
Yesterday's The Hill reported on a letter that acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller sent to the heads of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance...
Image
VP Meets Mayors in Hopes of Averting Fiscal Cliff
A couple of months ago, The United States Conference of Mayors, through a letter signed by a bipartisan group of 149 mayors across the country, called...
Image
MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas November 14 2012
Today, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas writes in The Hill that with the election now over, politicians can and should turn their attention to what...
Image
The Danger of a Fiscal Cliff Dive
As the President, Congress, business, labor, and other civic leaders meet this week to discuss a "Grand Bargain" on the fiscal cliff and our...
Image
Just Say No to the War Gimmick
Last week, a letter from six organizations--the AARP, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians, the American...
Image
Millennials Call for a Comprehensive Debt Deal
The generational burden of debt is one of the best arguments for millennials to get involved with the issue of deficits and debt. We've noticed many...