Catfood Commission Update: Simpson on a Hot Tin Roof
by Bruce Webb Those of us who follow the Obama Deficit Commission and its seeming hyper-focus on cutting Social Security were heartened last week by what turned into a veritable de-pantsing of...
View ArticleProfessor Jamie Galbraith’s testimony to Deficit Commission
Hat tip reader 1Watt,Hermit Democratic Underground and New Deal 2.0. Testimony is public domain…here it is in entirety. Statement to the Commission on Deficit ReductionJames K. Galbraith, Lloyd M....
View ArticleWhy the Pelosi Rule MAY not be a sell-out on Social Security
by Bruce Webb There is a huge disturbance in the Force, at least as sensed by the Jedi of FireDogLake, Democratic Underground, AMERICAblog, and OpenLeft, which is to say among the Obama-skeptics of the...
View ArticleSocial Security: Deficit, Debt and how CBO Scoring Screws the Catfood Comm
by Bruce Webb In response to my Pelosi Rule post of yesterday commenter Darms plays Devil’s Advocate in asking the following shrewd question. Bruce, Since the commision may be looking for a mechanism...
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SSA Scoring of Rivlin-Domenici
by Bruce Webb Well it is out and I have a copy. And no doubt in short order it will be up at the following web-page: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/solvency/index.html but as of 10:43 AM PST it wasn’t....
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Tax cuts and deficit commissions
by Linda Beale Tax cuts and deficit commissionscrossposted with Ataxingmatter The game continues, as Republicans hold out for tax cuts for the wealthy (who are garnering increasing amounts of the total...
View Article‘The One-Sided Deficit Debate’
Via Economist View comes James Kwak at Baseline Scenario on the early deal made on the the ‘fiscal cliff’: ‘The One-Sided Deficit Debate’ James Kwak is pessimistic about the deficit debate: What’s...
View Article‘Deficit Debate Driven by the Wealthy’
And another view on the upcoming election deals we need to worry about in addition to party agendas and deals. Doubling down on upward distribution of wealth remains the name of this game…it is hard...
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