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.
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Looking Ahead: FY 2014 Issues Creating FY 2015 Uncertainty
When lawmakers return from August recess in a few weeks they will turn their attention to FY 2014 government funding, which requires appropriations to...
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Tax Reform Targets Corporate Breaks
The broad outlines of tax reform have always been clear. Lawmakers trim or eliminate certain tax expenditures and use some or all of the additional...
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The Tax Break-Down: Child Tax Credit
This is the fourth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. The...
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Orlando Sentinel: Make Social Security Part of Budget Solution
While many in Washington are bracing for more partisan brinksmanship in the upcoming negotiations over the debt ceiling and a potential government...
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Latest Peterson Fiscal Confidence Index Shows Little Confidence
The Peterson Foundation has been releasing a Fiscal Confidence Index every month since December of last year, an index which measures public opinions...
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The Tax Break-Down: Preferential Rates on Capital Gains
This is the third post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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Taking a Broader Look at Federal Support for Education
On Friday, we discussed the President's recent speeches on his policy proposals for higher education. With most K-12 schools and university funding...
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Comparing 2010 and 2013 Federal Government Spending
Late last week, the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold published a piece claiming that "big government is mostly unchanged" since 2010, when...
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Economists' Survey: Long Term, Not the Short Term, Should Be the Focus
The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) conducted its semi-annual survey recently, surveying 220 economists on questions of fiscal...
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Disability Insurance and the Great Recession
Update: A new note from the Office of the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration finds that allowance rates actually fell during the...
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CBO Dissects the Medicare Spending Growth Slowdown
The slowdown in health care spending growth in recent years has been a hotly debated topic, as experts try to figure out the source of the slowdown...
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MY VIEW: Jim McCrery
When Congress returns from recess in early September, they will have to address two major upcoming challenges: pass appropriations for next year...