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.
CBPP: Tax Expenditures Are Ripe for the Picking
Tax expenditures have been a hot topic lately as a way to raise additional revenue for a deficit reduction plan that could replace sequestration...
Brookings Rethinks...Natural Disasters, Transportation, Visas & Housing
Our fourth blog on "15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget," a new report from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton project examines national disaster...
Brookings Rethinks...Disability Insurance
We have been working our way through the “15 Ways to Rethink the Budget” report from the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project. Previously, we...
Sen. Graham And Others Call for Entitlement and Tax Reform
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) put revenue on the table Monday night, in an interview on CNN's The Situation Room. Graham spoke out against sequestration...
My VIEW: Bill Frenzel February 2013
We've talked a great deal about how sequestration is bad policy, but that the worst outcome would be to cancel the sequester without offsets. In the...
Brookings Rethinks...Tax Expenditures
We have been working our way through the " 15 Ways to Rethink the Budget" report from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project, first covering...
Brookings Rethinks...Medicare
As promised, the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project has released the remaining papers in its series " 15 Ways to Rethink the Budget." We will be...
Tax Expenditures For Higher Education Rival Spending on Pell Grants
One of the lesser known provisions of the American Taxpayer Relief Act is the extension of the refundable American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC)...
Line Items: Sequester Edition
Sequester Week – It’s all about sequestration this week as the March 1 deadline for the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts looms ( read all about...
Can Our National Leaders Pass the Test?
Most everyone – from President Obama, Speaker Boehner, and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, to renowned economists – agrees that allowing...
Unintended Consequences of the Sequester
There has been a lot of talk about the sequester in recent weeks as the latest in a long line of fiscal stand-offs ensues in Washington. In FY 2013...
Talking Sequester and Debt in Idaho
CRFB's Maya MacGuineas joined former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY), Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) at the...