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.
Comparing the Bipartisan Path to Other Budget Proposals
Earlier today, Fiscal Commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson released a new comprehensive debt reduction plan with $2.5 trillion of...
Simpson and Bowles Release "A Bipartisan Path Forward"
Today, the former co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission, former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) and Erksine Bowles, released " A Bipartisan Path Forward to...
Line Items: Late Filing Edition
Taxing Time – This week was initially about the federal tax filing deadline, but the tragedies in Boston and Texas have shifted attention away from...
Bipartisan Policy Center's $560 Billion Plan to Lower Health Care Costs
A new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Health Care Cost Containment Initiative was released today containing roughly $560 billion in...
House Ways and Means Looks at the Chained CPI
Today, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security held a hearing on using the chained CPI to determine Social Security cost-of-living...
How The President's Budget Would Look In 2023
Our next blog post in our series analyzing the President's budget will look at where the budget leaves revenue and spending by the end of the decade...
Live: Ways and Means Holds Hearing on Chained CPI
Tune in now as the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security holds a hearing focusing on the use of the chained CPI to...
How Does the President Achieve His Health Care Savings?
Included in the President’s FY 2014 budget proposal is a $400 billion package of health care savings. As we described in our analysis of his budget...
The Sequester and the Baseline
Since the President's budget was released last week, there has been an ongoing debate over how much it saves. We’ve tried to shed light on this...
Revenue Provisions in the President's Budget
For the first time in a few days, Tax Day did actually fall on April 15, so hopefully the tax procrastinators out there were able to get their filing...
Is Chained CPI a 6 Percent Benefit Cut or a 25 Percent Benefit Increase?
With the President proposing switching to the chained CPI to measure inflation, the attack dogs are out. We've written on the merits of moving to the...
Three Voices in Support of the Chained CPI
Given the chained CPI is primary a technical adjustment to more accurately measure inflation, support for the change can be found among experts across...