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.
Hillary Clinton Releases Infrastructure Plan
This blog is part of a series of " Policy Explainers" for the 2016 presidential election, where we explain some of the candidates' policy proposals...
Five Years Since Simpson-Bowles: How Much of It Have We Enacted?
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform's (Fiscal Commission's) vote on the Simpson-Bowles...
Who Gets What in the Tax Extenders Deal?
Congress is still considering a potential fiscally irresponsible deal to extend the 50-some tax breaks that expired at the end of the year, known as...
Highway Conference Agreement is Both Gimmicky and Costly
Congressional negotiators this week released a conference agreement on highway spending authorization that will largely settle the issue of highway...
Tax Deal Goes Beyond Simple Extensions
Congress is in the process of negotiating a potential $ 700 billion deal that would extend several tax provisions that expired at the end of 2014...
Lankford Publishes Federal Fumbles
Senator James Lankford (R-OK), former Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-OK) successor, is maintaining the Debt Doctor's legacy with his Federal Fumbles book...
Robert L. Bixby and Maya MacGuineas: Campaigns must focus on debt before all else
Robert L. Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and...
Emerging Tax Deal Could Add $2.3 Trillion in Debt by 2035
A fiscally irresponsible bipartisan deal is emerging to re-instate, make permanent, and in some cases expand many expired tax breaks known as tax...
Seven Reasons to Pay for Tax Extenders
By the end of the year, lawmakers will likely to try to revive the “ tax extenders,” a set of more than 50 tax breaks that expired at the end of 2014...
Five-Year Highway Bill Could Be a Costly Mistake
As the House and Senate are conferencing their highway bills, a debate has broken out over how to spend the $78 billion of offsets. Setting aside the...
2016 Presidential Candidates Need To Propose Debt Solutions
The Brookings Institution's Center on Children and Families held an event this week highlighting eight big issues the presidential candidates need to...
Does Significantly Less Than 10 Percent of Defense Spending Go to Fighting International Terrorism?
During the November 14th Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said “We're spending over $600 billion a year on the military and yet...