National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform

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  Members of ‘Gang of Six’ Warn About Fiscal Cliff at SIFMA Conference

  By Michael K.Stanley  |  October 24, 2012

  At SIFMA’s annual meeting, Sens. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Mark Warner, D-Va., discussed the fiscal cliff and America’s future competitiveness in the global marketplace.

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  Social Security Reform Proposal From 2010 Gets Second Look

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  December 7, 2011

  Following the supercommittee’s failure to make recommendations on how to reduce the deficit, the Urban Institute released on Monday a paper analyzing the potential effects of the Commission’s recommendations should they be enacted.

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  Deficit Tax Proposals Would Radically Change 401(k)s: EBRI

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  November 11, 2011

  If enacted, two major tax-reform proposals aimed at shrinking the federal deficit would reduce 401(k) plan contributions and likely send retirement account balances tumbling, according to the nonpartisan EBRI.

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  Bowles, Simpson Warning: Deficit Committee Must Cut More Than $1.2 Trillion

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  November 1, 2011

  The two co-chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform warned lawmakers on Tuesday that any deal to reduce the federal budget deficit by no more than $1.2 trillion would “merely delay” the nation’s fiscal problems.

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  Washington Contemplates Severe Cap on 401(k) Contributions

  By Robert Bloink, Esq., LL.M., William H. Byrnes, Esq.  |  July 25, 2011

  Do we really want to discourage retirement savings as Social Security continues its inexorable slide toward insolvency?