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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Florida Governor Jeb Bush Proposes Social Security And Medicare Reform Plan
Today, Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush unveiled a new plan – among the most detailed we have seen so far from...
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Washington Post Praises Rigell Sequester Plan
Over the weekend, the Washington Post editorial board wrote a piece praising the sequester plan that Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) released last week. The...
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Alan Simpson & Maya MacGuineas: Too much debt, not enough solutions
Alan Simpson is a former Republican senator from Wyoming, former co-chair of the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission, and a member of the Committee for a...
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Will Budget Negotiators Depend on OCO?
Recent press reports indicate that the ongoing budget negotiations between Congressional leaders and the White House may lean on the use of the...
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Time To Reform The Federal Budget Process
The Senate Budget Committee held a hearing this week, the first in a series, on the need to reform the federal budget process. Testifying were Michael...
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David Perdue & Maya MacGuineas: National debt solutions noticeably absent from debates
Senator David Perdue, the junior senator from Georgia, and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a guest...
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Rigell Releases Sequester Replacement Plan
Congressman Scott Rigell (R-VA) released a plan today we might like even better than our own Sequester Offset Solutions (SOS) plan. Congressman Rigell...
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Two Months, Four Fiscal Speed Bumps to Deal With
We are coming down the home stretch of calendar year 2015, with only a little more than two months left. Lawmakers will have to get to work as they...
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Update: Why Our Debt Is Still a Problem Even if Deficits Fall
September 30th marked the end of the Fiscal Year, and the final numbers are in. The deficit for last year was $439 billion, according to the final...
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Could Eliminating the Payroll Tax Cap Extend Solvency to 2061 and Allow for Expanded Benefits?
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) discussed his plans to increase Social Security benefits and extend the program's solvency.
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Will Immigration Reform Increase Annual Wages by $250?
One claim made by former Gov. Martin O' Malley (D-MD) during last night’s debate is that immigration reform will "make wages go up in America $250 for...
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Do the Top 0.6 Percent of Americans Generate 30 Percent of the Revenue?
Gov. Lincoln Chafee (D-RI) said “So let's go back to the tax code. And 0.6 percent of Americans are at the top echelon, over 464,000, 0.6 Americans...