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.
Two More Calls for the U.S. to Tackle Its Debt
Two recent warnings over the United States' fiscal outlook are worth taking a look at. First, Bank of America Merrill Lynch released a report last...
Some Mythbusting of Our Own
You might have seen a piece featured in The Nation last week arguing “How the Austerity Class Rules Washington,” noting in the very first line how the...
MY VIEW: Perspectives on the Tax Reform Act of 1986
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 turned 25 on Saturday, prompting a number of commentators to write their perspective on the reform. We will highlight three...
The Importance of Shared Sacrifice
As is well-known by now, the growth in entitlement programs fueled by rising health care costs and an aging population threatens an ever-increasing...
Appropriations Update: A Return to Normalcy?
With just a month left to go before the temporary funding for FY 2012 runs out, the Senate is trying a different strategy from the one that has...
CRFB Analysis Shows Why Going Big Could Improve Chances of Success
With the Super Committee deliberating and the window for committee submissions passed, CRFB has released an analysis and a corresponding slide show...
Saving the U.S. Postal Service
Earlier this week, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced a number of rate increases to take effect in January 2012. For starters, the cost of first...
Path to Debt Stabilization: A Comparison of Debt Triggers
The President’s Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction included a detailed legislative proposal intended to enforce a declining path for the...
Tracker Updated With Two Plans From Last Week
We have updated our tracker of recommendations to the Super Committee with two plans that came out last Wednesday. The first is by the Congressional...
Social Security COLA Increase
Social Security beneficiaries will see a raise in their benefits next year, resulting from a 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase...
Democrats Target Oil and Other Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Yesterday, a group of 14 Senate Democrats sent a letter to the Super Committee, urging them to eliminate oil subsidies for the top five oil companies...
Growing Support for Go Big
For the past several weeks, we have been urging the Super Committee to Go Big on deficit-reduction and exceed its savings mandate of $1.5 trillion...