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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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas November 19 2012
Not long after her appeal to national leaders to work assiduously towards a bipartisan comprehensive debt-deal, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas makes...
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"Go Big" Group Forming Again in the House
President Obama met with Congressional leaders last Friday to begin working toward a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. Reportedly, the talks had an...
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Bill Frenzel: Going Off the Fiscal Cliff Is Good Policy—If You Like Unemployment
Former Congressman and CRFB Board Member Bill Frenzel has some advice for the so-called " fiscal cliff divers": don't even think about it! Going off...
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Five Fiscal Plans for Consideration
Today, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation held a follow-up event to its 2011 Solutions Initiative, in which policy organizations presented plans to deal...
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Softening the Blow on the Charitable Deduction
In a new paper yesterday, we showed how policymakers could raise revenue exclusively from higher earners without increasing rates. Specifically, we...
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Alternative Revenue Raisers from High Earners
As was the case two years ago, the 2001/2003 tax cuts will be a hot topic in the lame duck session. Democrats would like to extend the full tax cuts...
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The Administrative Side of the Fiscal Cliff
Yesterday's The Hill reported on a letter that acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller sent to the heads of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance...
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VP Meets Mayors in Hopes of Averting Fiscal Cliff
A couple of months ago, The United States Conference of Mayors, through a letter signed by a bipartisan group of 149 mayors across the country, called...
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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas November 14 2012
Today, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas writes in The Hill that with the election now over, politicians can and should turn their attention to what...
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The Danger of a Fiscal Cliff Dive
As the President, Congress, business, labor, and other civic leaders meet this week to discuss a "Grand Bargain" on the fiscal cliff and our...
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Just Say No to the War Gimmick
Last week, a letter from six organizations--the AARP, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians, the American...
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Millennials Call for a Comprehensive Debt Deal
The generational burden of debt is one of the best arguments for millennials to get involved with the issue of deficits and debt. We've noticed many...