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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New CRFB Paper Shows Tax Reform Can Reduce Rates and Deficits
Today, CRFB released a paper on individual income tax reform, showing how comprehensive reforms could lower both deficits and tax rates. The paper...
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Expanding on Our Live Fact-Checking
After live fact-checking the vice presidential debate on Twitter, we will take some time to go back and expand on some of our fact-checking and...
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JCT Report Does Not Conflict With Rate-Reducing Tax Reform
Today, a report from the Joint Committee on Taxation was released that some claim to show the near-impossibility of deficit-reducing, rate-reducing...
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Fact Checking the Debates: Round 2
Vice President Joe Biden and Representive Paul Ryan (R-WI) will take the stage in Kentucky tonight at 9:00 PM E.T. in the Vice Presidential Debate. In...
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AIG Drives TARP Estimate Lower
The CBO has released its newest estimate of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), showing that it would cost taxpayers a total of $24 billion...
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Fiscal Background for Tonight's Debate
Tonight at 9 PM in Kentucky will be the first and only vice presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden and candidate Paul Ryan. If this...
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Reducing Both Tax Rates and the Deficit Is Possible
Over the past few years, bipartisan agreement has begun to form around approaches to tax reform that take a broad approach to reducing or eliminating...
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Revisiting Dynamic Scoring
The use of dynamic scoring is one of the most contested issues in the budget world. We highlighted the pros and cons of using it and the issues...
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How the Fiscal Cliff (and Tax Reform) Could Affect Tax Rates
Over at TaxVox, Roberton Williams writes about what will happen to tax rates under the fiscal cliff. Many economists believe that marginal tax rates...
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Schumer Outlines His Vision for Taxes
In a speech at the National Press Club (video here), Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) outlined his vision of how to change the tax code. During the...
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Would Raising the Retirement Age Crowd Out Young Workers?
One of the criticisms of raising the retirement age is the belief that older workers delaying retirement may "crowd out" younger workers and cause...
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Van Hollen Sees Simpson-Bowles as the Framework for a Deal
Former Super Committee member and House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) indicated in a recent Bloomberg interview that the...