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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.
Does the Average Worker Pay $100,000 in Medicare Taxes and Receive $350,000 in Benefits?
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said during the debate that the average worker will pay $100,000 in Medicare taxes and receive $350,000 in benefits. According...
Bush Proposes Social Security and Medicare Reform Plan
This blog is part of a series of " Policy Explainers" for the 2016 presidential election, where we explain some of the candidates' policy proposals...
Budget Deal Truly Offsets Only Half Its Cost
Lawmakers are currently considering a budget deal that would increase appropriated spending, suspend the debt limit until March 2017, reallocate...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...