Latest
-
Rejecting Obstructive Pledges and Considering Proposals from the Fiscal Commission
Read moreThe Bottom Line today concludes its blog series highlighting our Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates on fiscal responsibility. 9. Rejecting Pledges...
-
Spending Challenge: Heritage Foundation's $343 Billion Proposal
Read moreThe Heritage Foundation recently came out with a detailed paper with over $300 billion in spending cuts that can be put in place in FY 2012. Their...
-
‘Line’ Items: Post-Halloween and Pre-Election Edition
Read moreTricks and Treats Not Done Yet – Halloween was celebrated last night and Election Day is tomorrow. Which day is scarier likely depends on your...
-
Health Care and Taxes
Read moreThe Bottom Line presents the next installment in our series highlighting our Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates leading up to Election Day. 7...
-
Social Security and National Security
Read moreThe Bottom Line continues its blog series highlighting our Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates ahead of the mid-term elections. 5. Strengthening...
-
MarketWatch: October 25-29, 2010
Read moreAll eyes are on next week’s meeting of the Fed’s Open Market Committee (FOMC), the monetary policy setting body of the Fed. As priced in by the...
-
MY VIEW: Gene Steuerle October 2010
Read moreFixing the Nation's Four-Tranche Universal Health System U.S. citizens soon will be participating in a four-part, nearly universal, health care system...
-
NTU, US PIRG and Heritage Get Specific
Read moreYesterday was a big day for getting specific as the National Taxpayers Union and the United States Public Interest Research Group, as well as the...
-
Pay As You Go and the Tax Cuts
Read moreContinuing in our discussion of (what we believe to be the most important!) Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates leading up to this coming Tuesday's...
-
Establishing Goals and Demolishing Myths
Read moreLast week CRFB provided Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates on fiscal policy as a way to help voters gauge how serious a candidate truly is regarding...
-
How to Build a Fiscal Consolidation Package: Some Lessons from the IMF
Read more“Virtually all advanced economies are likely to conduct fiscal consolidation at some point in the future to put their fiscal positions back on a...
-
A Letter in Support of Raising the Retirement Age
Read moreNine months since the creation of the Fiscal Commission, we are now just one month away from the scheduled release of its report/recommendations. For...