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.
Correcting Some Misconceptions About the Camp Plan
In the wake of the release of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp's (R-MI) tax reform discussion draft, some misconceptions have been...
Taking Stock of the Long-Term Fiscal Picture
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) isn't the only agency in town that does long-term projections. The Treasury Department annually releases the...
Democratic SGR Offset Alternative Replaces One Gimmick With Another
Earlier today, we wrote that the the House Republican SGR bill would add to long-term deficits by using a timing gimmick to pay for permanent costs...
House SGR Bill Increases Long-Term Deficits
While the relevant congressional committees recently reached agreement on a bipartisan plan to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula with...
Administration Does About-Face on Fate of ACA Cost-Sharing Subsidies
The administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its report to Congress on Monday detailing the sequester’s impact on mandatory...
OMB Releases Long-Term Projections for the FY2015 Budget Proposal
OMB just published additional information, explanations, tables, and projections related to this year's budget -- known as the Analytical Perspectives...
How Low Could Debt Go?
We talked last week about several policies making their first appearance in the President's budget. What we didn't mention is that in addition to...
EITC Attracts Bipartisan Praise and Proposals
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides low-income taxpayers with a refundable tax credit that increases up to a certain point along with...
Gene Steuerle: A Camp-ground for Tax Reformers
Gene Steuerle, Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, wrote a post on the Tax Policy Center's blog, TaxVox . It is...
How the President's Budget Deals with the Sequester
On Tuesday, the President released his budget, detailing his priorities for the upcoming year and beyond. Facing declining federal investment, the...
Everything You Need to Know About the President's Budget, In 9 Charts
On Tuesday, the President released his annual budget proposal, which details his priorities for FY 2015 as well as the coming decade. We published a...
What's New in the President's Budget?
With the release of the FY 2015 President's budget, the Obama Administration has now presented six annual budget plans (and an additional proposal to...