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.
Is the 2014 Budget Meeting Expectations?
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is set to update its budget and economic projections tomorrow, laying out the fiscal picture for the next ten...
Inversions Reduce Revenue, But Extenders Cost More
Many policymakers have expressed concern about "tax inversions," transactions where American companies move their headquarters overseas in order to...
Can Lawmakers Agree on Postal Reform?
The Postal Service has been losing money in recent years and has needed to cut back on services and raise stamp prices. However, these latest...
BPC Kicks Off Series on Delivery System Reform
The Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Project has kicked off a series of white papers on overcoming the obstacles to delivery system reform with an...
Washington Post: Congress Should Stop Relying On Gimmicks
The Washington Post editorial board came out today criticizing the use of gimmicks, saying the recent use of pension smoothing was a new low in terms...
General Revenue & the Social Security Trust Funds
Social Security is often portrayed in one of two ways, either as its own self-contained program (the “trust fund perspective”) or as part of the...
Event Recap: "Can Simpson-Bowles Save Social Security?"
On August 15, PublicSquare.net hosted a debate on Social Security featuring CRFB's very own Ed Lorenzen. The event, titled "Can Simpson-Bowles Save...
The Story of Supplementals Since 2000
The use of supplemental appropriations got some press last month as the Obama Administration requested $4.3 billion to address the Central American...
On Social Security’s 79th Birthday, CRFB Releases Updated "Social Security Reformer"
It was on this day 79 years ago that President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act of 1935. While lawmakers have expanded the...
Maya MacGuineas: The Long-Term Answer to Inversions? Tax Reform.
Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
CRFB's MacGuineas Dispels Five Social Security Myths
In an op-ed that appeared in several papers, including the Providence Journal, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas dispelled five myths about Social...
How to Get a Balanced Budget in Ten Years
In a New York Times article describing Republican plans if they re-take Congress next year, reporter Carl Hulse cited CRFB, saying that "balancing the...