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.
Coburn's Finds Waste in DoD
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is known for going after government inefficiencies, whether it's lauching the GAO's comprehensive review of federal agencies...
A Closer Look at Subsidized Stafford Loans
In a recent blog post, Jason Delisle and Alex Holt, colleagues at the New America's Foundation Education Budget Project, argue for the elimination of...
Line Items: NASCAR Edition
Racing to the Cliff – The NASCAR season ended on Sunday with Brad Keselowski claiming his first Sprint Cup championship. But fans of seeing things...
Weinstein Proposes Cut-to-Invest Commission to Finance Infrastructure
A new report by CRFB and Moment of Truth Project consultant Paul Weinstein provides some guidance on how we could handle both our infrastructure...
Maya MacGuineas: Five myths about the 'fiscal cliff'
Not long after her appeal to national leaders to work towards a bipartisan compromise, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas dispels 5 common misconceptions...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...