Tag: National Debt
Let’s Take A Closer Look At Those Triggers
Jonathan Chait has a fascinating analysis of the trigger in the debt deal and how there’s a potential to tear apart the Republican coalition.
On Deficits and Debts; or Don’t Believe the Entitlements Hype
The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities continues its yeoman work on documenting where the federal Government’s deficits AND Debts come from. Even though most of the readers here likely get this story, it has yet to make much of a dent in the media narrative, which continues to flog the business about entitlement spending being the thing that is running our fiscal futures off of the rails.
This Is More Like It
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a liberal Democrat and member of the Deficit Reduction Committee presents her own deficit reduction plan. What a shock – it doesn’t steal from Social Security to give tax cuts to the rich.
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