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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.
Bipartisan Agreement on Gimmicks to Fund the Highway Trust Fund
Both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee approved legislation on Thursday to fund a short-term patch for the Highway...
Would Bonus Depreciation Grow the Economy and Pay For Itself?
The House passed legislation today to expand and make permanent the bonus depreciation rules that expired at the end of last year. A key argument for...
White House Releases Supplemental Immigration Request
The White House this week requested an additional $4.3 billion in discretionary appropriations for the current fiscal year to cover the cost of the...
Don't Use a Gimmick to Fund Our Highways
The House Ways and Means Committee just published its plan for a short-term fix to the Highway Trust Fund, which needs an additional $8 billion to...
Continued Slow Growth for Medicare in 2014
CBO's release of the June Monthly Budget Review (MBR) gives us another data point in what has been an interesting story for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014: the...
Congress Must Abide by PAYGO for Upcoming Legislation
Congress returns from its July 4th recess this week, and it will have plenty of work to do. Most pressing is the looming insolvency of the Highway...
CTJ's Options for Raising Revenue
Citizens for Tax Justice released a new report detailing options to raise revenue, which could help lawmakers in their pursuit of tax reform to lower...
Pension Insurer Expects to Be Out of Funds By 2022
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) put out an annual report this week of its financial status insuring private pensions around the...
One Month Left Before Highway Spending Disruptions
Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx started the Highway Trust Fund clock yesterday, informing state transportation directors that...
Peterson Report Calls for Fiscal Balancing Act
In the context of a middling U.S. economic recovery, several commentators have argued that we should ignore deficit reduction in order to pursue...
TPC Examines Options to Change Retirement Savings Incentives
The Tax Policy Center and Urban Institute have issued a new report entitled "Flattening Tax Incentives for Retirement Saving." Authors Barbara Butrica...
Buying Time for a Highway Solution with General Funds
Our recent paper Trust or Bust: Fixing the Highway Trust Fund called on lawmakers to identify a long-term fix to the funding gap in the Highway Trust...