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Line Items: Draft Edition
Read moreMaking the Call – The NFL Draft kicks off Thursday. Unlike previous drafts, there is much uncertainty as to who will go where. Washington is in a... -
Tax Reform in A Bipartisan Path Forward
Read moreRecent reports from Capitol Hill show momentum for tax reform is building. Both the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees have been... -
War Spending as Sequester Replacement? Just Don't Do It
Read moreWith news yesterday that the Senate might consider a bill to replace the sequester for 2013 with a drawdown of war spending, CRFB reacted in a press... -
New Simpson-Bowles Plan Would Boost Economic Growth, Not Slow It
Read moreSome commentators have criticized deficit reduction plans like " A Bipartisan Path Forward" for, in their opinion, promoting austerity at a time when... -
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The President's Budget in the Long Term
Read moreContinuing our analysis of the President's FY 2014 budget proposal, we turn to how the President's budget would affect long-term revenues and spending... -
Why the Health Care Slowdown Is Unlikely to Last
Read moreLast month, we looked at reasons why some projections showing a slowdown health care costs most likely will not pan out. Although the recent slowdown... -
CBPP Takes a Look at the President's Chained CPI Proposal
Read morePreviously on The Bottom Line, we have shown how the chained CPI could be a 6 percent benefit cut or a 25 percent benefit increase, depending on how... -
The Bipartisan Path Forward's Medicare Buy-in
Read moreIn an effort to bridge differences in long-term structural reforms to federal health spending, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Senator Al Simpson... -
"A Bipartisan Path Forward" and the Long Term
Read moreErskine Bowles and Alan Simpson's new plan, " A Bipartisan Path Forward to Securing America's Future," saves $2.5 trillion to $2.85 trillion over the... -
CBO Takes a Look at the CPI-E
Read moreOpponents of the chained CPI often propose an alternative index for cost-of-living adjustments, the experimental CPI for Americans 62 years of age and... -
How Simpson and Bowles Plan to Bend the Health Care Cost Curve
Read moreIn their new deficit reduction proposal, A Bipartisan Path Forward, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs former Senator Al Simpson (R-WY) and Erskine...