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.
How Low Could Debt Go?
We talked last week about several policies making their first appearance in the President's budget. What we didn't mention is that in addition to...
EITC Attracts Bipartisan Praise and Proposals
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides low-income taxpayers with a refundable tax credit that increases up to a certain point along with...
Gene Steuerle: A Camp-ground for Tax Reformers
Gene Steuerle, Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, wrote a post on the Tax Policy Center's blog, TaxVox . It is...
How the President's Budget Deals with the Sequester
On Tuesday, the President released his budget, detailing his priorities for the upcoming year and beyond. Facing declining federal investment, the...
Everything You Need to Know About the President's Budget, In 9 Charts
On Tuesday, the President released his annual budget proposal, which details his priorities for FY 2015 as well as the coming decade. We published a...
What's New in the President's Budget?
With the release of the FY 2015 President's budget, the Obama Administration has now presented six annual budget plans (and an additional proposal to...
In Expressing Concerns over CBO's Role, Zachary Karabell Actually Makes a Strong Case For CBO's Role
In a Washington Post article last weekend, Zachary Karabell takes issue with the importance placed on CBO scoring of legislation, arguing that the...
Line Items: After the Party Edition
Stumbling Back Home – Budget Day and Fat Tuesday collided this week as the White House unveiled its $3.9 trillion Fiscal Year 2015 budget request on...
The Costs of Senator Mike Lee's Tax Reform
On Tuesday, the Tax Policy Center (TPC) released an estimate of Senator Mike Lee's Family Fairness and Opportunity Tax Reform Act. We first described...
The President's Budget Puts the Debt on a Downward Path? Not So Fast...
OMB's projections for the President's FY2015 budget show the debt falling from a post-WWII record next year of nearly 75 percent of GDP down to 69...
CRFB's Analysis of the FY 2015 President's Budget
The President's budget is here, and so is CRFB's analysis. Our paper breaks down the key budget metrics, the policies the President uses to get there...
The President's FY2015 Budget
This morning, President Obama released his FY2015 budget, outlining the priorities for FY2015 and the coming decade. In this blog, we provide an...