Do you remember this? The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (often called Bowles-Simpson/Simpson-Bowles from the names of co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles;
Tag: federal budget
Managing the deficit is not on anyone’s agenda
Hundreds of millions in savings from winding down the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and we immediately find new ways to spend the money, not reduce
How to increase the deficit lickety split
In case you were interested in what Congress just did to the deficit by extending the 2% cut in the Social Security payroll tax, read
Threatening politicians if they cut Medicare, it’s not only the elite who influence for self interest at our collective peril. What would you do to rein in Medicare costs?
Twenty-six year old history majors are protesting on Wall Street, the influence of the wealthy is decried, lobbyists are bedeviled and yet when a politician
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