Feb 28, 2013 | Taxes
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....
Blog | February 2013
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.
Feb 28, 2013 | Budgets & Projections
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...
Feb 27, 2013 | Social Security
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....
Feb 27, 2013
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...
Feb 27, 2013
My VIEW: Bill Frenzel
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...
Feb 26, 2013
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...
Feb 26, 2013 | Health Care
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."...
Feb 26, 2013 | Taxes
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...
Feb 26, 2013
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...
Feb 25, 2013
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 ...