Robert L. Bixby

May 30, 2024 | aei.org | Sita Slavov |Robert L. Bixby |Phil Smith

AEI’s Sita Slavov joins The Concord Coalition’s radio show and podcast, Facing the Future, to discuss her recent essay Making Tough Fiscal Choices to Protect Future Generations. She talked about the urgent need for fiscal reforms, including Social Security adjustments, a carbon tax, and broadening the tax base, to ensure economic sustainability for future generations. Read summary and listen to the podcast here.

Feb 18, 2024 | thehill.com | Robert L. Bixby

We’ve all heard that if you put a frog in boiling water, it will jump out, but if you put a frog in warm water and slowly turn up the heat it will stay put until boiled to death. That may or may not be true, but it is a useful allegory of how incremental changes can accumulate to dangerous or even fatal levels if ignored. The unfortunate frog came to mind as I read through the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034 released last week by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Jul 18, 2023 | thehill.com | Robert L. Bixby

Following the passage of the , House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) expressed interest in appointing a bipartisan commission to address the nation’s long-term fiscal imbalance. That idea has now drawn support from the newly formed Bipartisan Fiscal Forum. These are very promising developments, but only if both parties are prepared to put everything on the table. This is not simply a political imperative. It is a policy imperative as well.