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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Bonus Depreciation Has Cost $220 Billion Since 2008
Last week, we made the case that an expired provision known as bonus depreciation be treated separately from the other tax extenders, both because it...
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Pentagon White Paper Looks at Reforms to Military Retirement
A recent Department of Defense white paper takes a close look at what reforms to the military retirement system might look like, even though the...
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Sen. Murray Introduces Tax Cut Bill
Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced legislation yesterday to cut taxes for low- and middle-income workers in a few different...
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Gimmick in Doc Fix Patch Should Be Replaced with Real Savings
Congress is considering another 12-month doc fix, averting a 24 percent cut in Medicare physician payments scheduled for April 1. While the SGR patch...
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One-Year Doc Fix Emerges
(Updated to incorporate new information from the Congressional Budget Office's score of the doc fix bill) In lieu of a permanent agreement and with...
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The Tax Break-Down: Tax Extenders
This is the sixteenth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which analyzes and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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House Hearing on 'Why Debt Matters'
The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing this morning on " Why Debt Matters," which included testimony by Honeywell CEO Dave Cote, former...
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Administration Softens Sequester Impact on Health Reform Again
A new rule proposed by the administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would effectively eliminate the sequester for another...
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MY VIEW: Joshua Gordon and Jason Peuquet
Jason Peuquet, research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, has an op-ed with Joshua Gordon of the Concord Coalition in the San...
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Paying the Costs of Bonus Depreciation
In the coming weeks, both the House and Senate are expected to begin discussing what to do with a number of expired tax provisions known as the "tax...
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Steny Hoyer Calls for a 'Grand Bargain'
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) called on Congress to lay the groundwork for a budget grand bargain. Speaking this morning, Hoyer urged members...
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CBO: Senate "Doc Fix" Would Add $215 Billion to the Debt
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new estimate of the fiscally irresponsible Senate “doc fix” bill, showing it would increase Medicare...