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Line Items: Packing Up the Baggage Edition
Heading for the Exits – This is the final week before Congress begins its five-week August recess. Lawmakers have a lot baggage to pack up before they...
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Weinstein: Simplification Should Be First Priority of Tax Reform
The tax reform debate is heating up and many groups are weighing in on what tax provisions should be kept and what the broad revenue and...
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CBO Estimates the Economic Hit of the Sequester
Today, the Congressional Budget Office released a report detailing the projected economic effects of repealing the sequester starting August 1. The...
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Broadening Base-Broadening: "Beyond Tax Expenditures"
Readers of The Bottom Line know that we talk frequently on the subject of tax expenditures, the deductions, credits, and other tax preferences which...
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Fact or Fiction: Is Social Security Regressive?
Is Social Security a distributionally regressive system overall? Some people may have this conception due to a few features of the program: higher...
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MY VIEW: Judd Gregg July 2013
In the midst of our slow economic recovery, both the public and our Congressional leaders alike can too easily narrow their field of vision to solely...
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New Life for Generational Accounting
Senators John Thune (R-SD), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Chris Coons (D-DE) have introduced the Intergenerational Financial Obligations...
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NYT Gets It Wrong on the Student Loan Deal
A recent New York Times editorial gets it wrong by opposing a bipartisan student loan deal that would lower interest rates for all new students today...
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Op-Ed: Credible Debt Plan Would Boost the US Economy
Financial Times | July 23, 2013 Sir, Edward Luce says that “Simpson and Bowles are wrong about the US debt” (July 15) but he gets it wrong describing...
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A More Detailed Physician Payment Reform Proposal
After releasing a broad physician payment reform draft, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has released a more fleshed out framework to replace...
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Line Items: Summer Heat Edition
Heat Is On – The heart of the summer is upon us and Washington is feeling the heat in more than one way. In addition to record temperatures...
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Making the Case for Fundamental Tax Reform
Today, the Campaign to Fix the Debt released a memo making the case for the “ blank slate” approach to tax reform proposed by Senate Finance Chairman...