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Dave Camp: Is Tax Reform Politically Possible?
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Rep. Dave Camp, House Ways and Means Committee chairman, representing northern Michigan, says every deduction in the tax code is there because of a reason, and powerful lobbies will oppose any changes. The best he can do is work himself out of this job as he will have to tackle the Democrats on entitlements, the business lobbies on tax loopholes, and other lobbies protecting their preferences in the tax code. He plans to achieve a simpler tax code with lowered rates of 25% for business and earners above six figures, and 10% for everyone else. The approach he is taking is to be revenue neutral when tackling tax reform, in the belief that the economic growth generated from a simpler tax code and lower rates would generate revenues of 18 to 19% of GDP, up from about 16% today. He says the economc cost of not getting this done to get the economy rolling again is so high that he is upbeat that both sides can come together after the election no matter who wins. He is also looking at a repatriation tax of 5% on profits kept by American companies overseas, which would boost revenues for business which could be reinvested in stead of sitting idle. Today the much steeper tax rate on repatriation makes businesses reluctant to bring it back.
Rep. Dave Camp of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee and tax reforms to address the deficit
07/18/2011
Rep/ Dave Camp (MI) helps Republicans navigate the issues surrounding changes in U.S. taxes, including reducing or removing tax deductions to reduce the budget deficit. His ideas about changing the tax code to make it simpler and generate tax revenues of 18-19% of GDP instead of 16% in 2012.
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Rick Snyder, a G.O.P. Governor Who Eludes Labels
New York Times 08/18/2012
Alan Simpson on the August 2 Debt Ceiling and Deficit legislation of August 2, 2011
01/16/2009
Alan Simpson of the Simpson-Bowles Commission talks about the debt panel or super-committee's task in coming up with $1.2 trillion in savings by the end of 2011. Simpson says the work of that committe will be similiar to the work he and Bowles engaged in. An enormous effort will go into clearing misperceptions and preconceived notions. He says there are only so many ways of coming up with savings and everything has to be touched to get to the goal, given that the U.S. borrows 39 cents of every dollar it spends.
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Debt Hawk Alan Simpson on the Work Ahead
BusinessWeek 08/04/2011
Washington Post 08/07/2011
Tom Keene Talks to David A. Stockman
BusinessWeek 08/04/2011
Why the Debt Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think
BusinessWeek 07/27/2011
Reid Names First Debt-Panel Picks
Wall Street Journal 08/10/2011
Republicans Set Debt-Panel Roster
Wall Street Journal 08/11/2011
American public opinion on cutting Medicare and Social Security
02/15/2011
There is little support for cutting the two programs polls show. This suggests that politicians who fight for cuts in the popular programs risk being punished in the next elections. Voter awareness about the problems the large budget deficits pose for the U.S. and what action needs to be taken is growing, but only growing slowly.
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Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/2013
Voters Balk at Cuts Close to Home
Wall Street Journal 02/15/2011
Wall Street Journal 03/03/2011
Republicans Shelve Medicare Overhaul Plan
New York Times 05/05/2011
New York Times 05/26/2011
New York Times 05/26/2011
Deficit discussions in the U.S. and revenue from taxes- 2011-2012
07/04/2011
Negotiations between the White House, Democrats and Republicans, to achieve major reductions and cuts in spending, and increase tax revenues by reducing tax expenditures. The discussions for an action plan on the U.S. budget deficit have reached an impasse with Republicans opposed to any tax increases.
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Budget Shell Games Are Contrary to Law
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GOP Hopefuls Betting Voters Want Deep Cuts
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Why we need a third party - The Washington Post
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New York Times 07/04/2011
New York Times 07/07/2011
Deficit spending and the U.S. economy
01/04/2010
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Wall Street Journal 06/24/2011
Why the Old Jobs Aren't Coming Back
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President's Focus: $4 Trillion
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Washington Post 10/01/2011
Efforts to fix the budget deficit in Michigan- 2011-2012
02/17/2011
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Lasting Budget Fix Sought in Michigan
Wall Street Journal 02/17/2011
Michigan Gov. Says He Won't 'Pick Fights' With Unions
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Michigan Governor Tells Cities to Tighten Belts
Wall Street Journal 03/04/2011
States Weigh Reductions in Benefits For Unemployed; Rising Costs Cited - The Washington Post
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Michigan Cuts Jobless Benefit by 6 Weeks
New York Times 03/28/2011
Higher Taxes Yield to Budget Cuts in States
Wall Street Journal 07/07/2011
Expert opinion on the Paul Ryan Republican deficit reduction plan of 2011-2012
09/16/2010
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GOP Hopefuls Betting Voters Want Deep Cuts
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Why we need a third party - The Washington Post
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Charlie Rose Talks to Paul Ryan
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Paul Ryan's Reverse Robin Hood Budget
Wall Street Journal 04/19/2011
The Bipartisan March to Fiscal Madness
New York Times 04/23/2011
New York Times 05/27/2011
Friedman on Obama, the presidential campaign of 2012 and the failure to embrace the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan
09/26/2011
A campaign developed by campaign consultants lacking boldness and clear vision, one developed in test-tube fashion, is how Friedman describes the Obama election campaign. He describes the long period in the second half of 2011 as a crucial period inthe Obama presidency, when Obama lacked the courage to embrace his own presidential commission's Simpson-Bowles plan for deficit reduction and simply vacillated in a back and forth with Republicans. The price may well be the loss of independent and center-right voters.
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Why we need a third party - The Washington Post
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President Obama Should Seize the High Ground
New York Times 05/26/2012
Washington Post 06/09/2012
Rep. Dave Camp patiently pursues tax reform - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/29/2012
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Wall Street Journal 08/12/2012
Martin Feldstein: Romney's Tax Plan Can Raise Revenue
Wall Street Journal 08/28/2012
John Taylor and other experts on the U.S. budget, deficits, and private investment for jobs
01/27/2009
Taylor asks why the U.S. cannot get by on a budget that is 20% of GDP, when this is what the budget was in 2007 and GDP is much larger today. He says private investment can do a better job reducing unemployment and creating a growing U.S. economy. Taylor provides advice on the Romney Plan.
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Bhidé and Phelps: Central Banking Needs Rethinking
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Obama's Permanent Spending Binge
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Five Lessons for Deficit Busters
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Charlie Rose Talks to Robert Rubin
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Washington Post 08/07/2011
Liberal Groups and the US Deficit Commission proposals
11/28/2010
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New Deficit-Cutting Plans to Come From Liberal Groups
New York Times 11/28/2010
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Deficit Plan Fails to Win Panel Support
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Tax-cut deal has liberal Democrats fuming
Washington Post 12/07/2010
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
Washington Post 01/26/2011
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Past U.S. Presidents, Debt, Budget Deficits and Deficit Reduction
07/21/2011
Presidents from FDR to Bush and how they handled U.S. deficit reduction. Views of historians. FDR was not the spender he is presented to be. He believed in responsible budgeting. Social Security was to be financed through contributions from employees and employers. For Social Security financing Roosevelt said: "no dole."
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New York Times 07/21/2011
Presidents and their Debt , FDR to Bush: FDR, Deficit Hawk
New York Times 07/21/2011
New York Times 07/21/2011
New York Times 07/21/2011
Washington Post 08/07/2011
Wall Street Journal 02/14/2012
Post-ABC Poll on the Debt Ceiling and Deficit Reduction talks of June-July 2011
07/13/2011
The poll sees public discontent with the lack of compromise from Republicans and Democrats. About 63% of respondents say they would be looking for new faces in Congress. A majority of Republican respondents say they favor higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
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Wall Street Journal 07/13/2011
Post-ABC poll: GOP too dug in on debt talks; public fears default consequences - The Washington Post
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Threat of Mutiny in Both Parties Helped Scuttle Talks
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Working With New Script to Stop a Train Wreck
New York Times 07/24/2011
Q. and A. on the U.S. Debt Ceiling
New York Times 07/27/2011
New York Times 07/28/2011
Romney's plan on taxes and the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan
04/16/2012
Romney's plan to limit or eliminate some standard tax deductions similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.
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Romney Specifies Deductions He'd Cut
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Why neither Obama nor Romney wants to talk about Romney’s record - The Washington Post
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President Obama Should Seize the High Ground
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With Ryan, Romney Casts Spotlight on Budget Details
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Solutions to the U.S. budget deficit, including changes in Social Security and Medicare.
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Alice Rivlin's Bid to Cut the Deficit
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Physician Panel Prescribes the Fees Paid by Medicare
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Deficit panel leaders propose curbs on Social Security, major cuts in spending, tax breaks
Washington Post 11/10/2010
Panel Weighs Deep Cuts in Tax Breaks and Spending
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The 2010 Deficit Commission and reduction in defense spending
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The Balanced Budget Amendment in the U.S. Congress in August 2011
07/14/2011
Critics say the balanced budget amendment would prevent the use of countercyclical policies in a downturn like the present one facing the U.S. economy. Because of the tendency of politicians to avoid difficult decisions and "kick the can down the road," it serves to focus attention on making the cuts in spending, including tax expenditures, that can help reduce the deficit to sustainable levels.
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Why a balanced-budget amendment is too risky - The Washington Post
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For Republican Freshmen, the Power of No
New York Times 07/29/2011
The Boehner and Reid plans for U.S. deficit reduction one week before the Aug 2, 2011, debt ceiling deadline
07/13/2011
The politics behind competing factions, moderate Republicans Boehner and McConnell, Cantor and freshman Republicans, Reid and Pelosi Democrats, and the Obama White House, as they wrestle with the deficit. The political calculations and perceptions of each faction for the 2012 presidential elections.
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Boehner Urges G.O.P. Unity in âEpic Battleâ
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Why Democrats Are Dug in on Shutdown Impasse
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Congress Passes Debt, Budget Deal
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The events in the 2011 U.S. deficit reduction and debt ceiling talks between the Obama White House and Republicans
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U.S. Budget Deficit: 2010-2012
06/01/2010
Increasing concern about the deficit and efforts to cut the deficit.
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Alice Rivlin's Bid to Cut the Deficit
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U.S. States preference for budget cuts not tax increases in deficit reduction- 2011-2012
07/07/2011
A detailed look at how 46 states turned to budget cuts not tax increases as they looked for ways to reduce the budget deficits.
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Higher Taxes Yield to Budget Cuts in States
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Tom Keene Talks to Robert Skidelsky
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Families Feel Sharp Edge of State Budget Cuts
New York Times 09/06/2011
States face bleak economic forecast, report says - The Washington Post
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The U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and estimates of the U.S. Budget Deficit
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Unknown 02/05/2014
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The U.S. economy and difficult choices in 2012-2013 as seen in Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections
01/16/2009
The U.S. faces difficult choices in 2012-2013- efforts to close the deficit by letting the Bush tax cuts and payroll tax cuts expire and making spending reductions will lead to low growth. Not doing this will lead to growth with much higher deficits and unsustainable debt levels.
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U.S. Defense Spending in a world of Budget Deficits- post 2010.
07/09/2010
A shift in mood to a smaller defense budget that can be sustained in the long run. Smarter spending as the solution to budget constraints in a deficit world.
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Pentagon Lays Out Ways to Slash Spending
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U.S. Military Eyes Cut to Pay, Benefits
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Bowles and Simpson of the President's Deficit Commission defend their plan
11/18/2010
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Charlie Rose Talks to Erskine Bowles, Alan Simpson
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Washington Post 01/26/2011
Wall Street Journal 03/03/2011
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2011
New York Times 04/07/2011
Raise Taxes, but Not Tax Rates
New York Times 05/04/2011
Alternative deficit commission report by Rivlin-Domenici
10/21/2010
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Another Deficit Plan Targets Taxes
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Sheila C. Bair - Will the next fiscal crisis start in Washington?
Washington Post 11/26/2010
Tax-cut deal has liberal Democrats fuming
Washington Post 12/07/2010
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
Washington Post 01/26/2011
Wall Street Journal 03/03/2011
To Cut the Deficit, Look to Social Security
New York Times 04/04/2011
Criticism of the 2010 President's Deficit Commission report.
11/11/2010
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New York Times 11/11/2010
A Panel's Plan to Cut the Deficit
New York Times 11/12/2010
The president's deficit commission: Nice try
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America's deficit: Confronting the monster
Economist 11/20/2010
New York Times 11/22/2010
Deficit Plan Fails to Win Panel Support
Wall Street Journal 12/03/2010
David Stockman on the budget deficit reduction plans of Republicans and Democrats
01/20/2010
Stockman sees a failure to recognize budget reality in Obama's plan to avoid taxes on the middle class. He also sees a similiar failure in Paul Ryan's effort to shield defense and the rich, while at the same time focussing most of the cuts on the poorer sections of society. He says both plans put off cuts and taxes till way into the future- from 12 years to 20 years into the future.
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Wall Street Journal 04/18/2013
Why we need a third party - The Washington Post
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New York Times 10/20/2013
Charlie Rose Talks to Paul Ryan
BusinessWeek 09/16/2010
The Bipartisan March to Fiscal Madness
New York Times 04/23/2011
New York Times 07/07/2011
Eric Cantor, Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives
02/15/2009
Eric Cantor is a key figure in the negotiations over the budget, deficit reduction, and raising the budget ceiling. Cantor firmly opposes any tax increases for deficit reduction.
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GOP Hopefuls Betting Voters Want Deep Cuts
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GOP 'Young Guns' attack Obama and former party leaders in new book
Washington Post 09/03/2010
In Gingrich Mold, a New Voice for Solid Resistance in G.O.P.
New York Times 02/15/2009
Eric Cantor Defeated by David Brat, Tea Party Challenger, in Primary Upset
New York Times 06/10/2014
Cantor emerges as key player in debt negotiations - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/12/2011
Mr. Obama’s debt deal advice: Give peas a chance - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/12/2011
Feldstein's proposal for a 2% cap on reduction in taxes from deductions and exclusions.
05/04/2011
Feldstein says its important to increases taxes not tax rates. And the the way to go is to follow the President's Bowles-Simpson Deficit Commission's proposal on tax expenditures. As it is politically difficult to eliminate deductions and exclusions he suggests another proposal- limit the reduction in taxes with a 2% of adjusted gross income cap on the reduction any taxpayer gets.
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Raise Taxes, but Not Tax Rates
New York Times 05/04/2011
New York Times 07/04/2011
The Elmendorf Rule - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/09/2011
Tom Keene Talks to Martin Feldstein
BusinessWeek 07/07/2011
Wall Street Journal 07/12/2011
Top Democrats laud GOP debt-ceiling move - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/14/2011
Efforts to fix the budget deficit in the state of California 2011-2013
01/14/2010
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California’s New Problem: Too Much Money
New York Times 05/25/2013
Brown Set for Victory in California Budget Fight
Wall Street Journal 06/12/2013
Boskin and Cogan: California's Casino Budgeting
Wall Street Journal 06/04/2012
California Works Out Budget Deal
Wall Street Journal 06/22/2012
Report Details Threats to States' Fiscal Health
Wall Street Journal 07/18/2012
In Report on Statesâ Finances, a Grim Long-Term Forecast
New York Times 07/17/2012
How the U.S. went from a CBO surplus projection of $2.3 trillion for 2011 to a deficit figure $12.7 trillion below that estimate
01/16/2009
The CBO projection was made in 2001 and showed a surplus of $2.3 trillion for 2011. Two wars, higher defense spending added about $2 trillion. The Stimulus about $700 billion. Figures from the analysis done by the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative using CBO numbers.
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CBO | The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2014 to 2024
Unknown 02/05/2014
Washington Post 08/07/2011
Tom Keene Talks to Robert Skidelsky
BusinessWeek 07/28/2011
Why the Debt Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think
BusinessWeek 07/27/2011
New York Times 08/13/2011
Forecast Clouds Debt-Cut Outlook
Wall Street Journal 08/25/2011
Krauthammer on the U.S. debt ceiling and deficit reduction talks of 2011
07/13/2011
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 07/13/2011
Budget Shell Games Are Contrary to Law
Wall Street Journal 07/14/2011
Call his bluff - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/15/2011
Wall Street Journal 07/15/2011
Post-ABC poll: GOP too dug in on debt talks; public fears default consequences - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/20/2011
Working With New Script to Stop a Train Wreck
New York Times 07/24/2011
Martin Feldstein, Sheila Bair and other experts on the Bowles-Simpson Deficit Commission proposals
11/17/2010
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The Deficit Dilemma and Obama's Budget
Wall Street Journal 11/18/2010
America's budget deficit: Speak softly and carry a big chainsaw
Economist 11/20/2010
Sheila C. Bair - Will the next fiscal crisis start in Washington?
Washington Post 11/26/2010
Debt and Taxes: Will Washington Ever Grow Up?
BusinessWeek 11/17/2010
Martin Feldstein - How to cut the deficit without raising taxes
Washington Post 11/29/2010
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
Washington Post 01/26/2011
Mitch McConnell's strategy in his debt ceiling initiative in mid 2011
07/13/2011
McConnell's twin goals of regaining Republican control of the Senate and preventing the re-election of Obama. How the debt ceiling plan he has offered fits in with this. His fears that a default on the U.S. debt could hurt Republicans as it did the last time this happened, when Clinton was re-elected. His plan would separate raising the debt ceiling limit from deficit reduction talks.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 07/13/2011
Budget Shell Games Are Contrary to Law
Wall Street Journal 07/14/2011
GOP Hopefuls Betting Voters Want Deep Cuts
Wall Street Journal 07/18/2011
Bob Woodward: The inside story of how Obama and Boehner negotiate - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/07/2013
Wall Street Journal 07/14/2011
The Republican Case for Compromise Over the Debt Ceiling
New York Times 07/13/2011
Republican views on the Bowles-Simpson Deficit Commission proposals
12/03/2010
Grouped Articles
GOP Hopefuls Betting Voters Want Deep Cuts
Wall Street Journal 07/18/2011
Why we need a third party - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/26/2011
Wall Street Journal 12/03/2010
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
Washington Post 01/26/2011
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2011
New York Times 04/07/2011
Senate Democrats and the Obama White House proposals for large tax increases in the 2011 deficit reduction talks
07/13/2011
The politics of the debt ceiling talks and how it involves both Republicans and Democrats.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 07/13/2011
Why we need a third party - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/26/2011
Budget Discord Simmers Among Democrats
Wall Street Journal 10/21/2013
Wall Street Journal 07/15/2011
Post-ABC poll: GOP too dug in on debt talks; public fears default consequences - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/20/2011
Threat of Mutiny in Both Parties Helped Scuttle Talks
Wall Street Journal 07/23/2011
The "Gang of Six" U.S. deficit reduction plan in the U.S. Senate in mid 2011
07/20/2011
Grouped Articles
The Gang of Six: New hope in the debt crisis - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/20/2011
Can the Gang of Six’s plan pass? - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/20/2011
Gang of Six Plan Cuts Both Ways
Wall Street Journal 07/21/2011
Bloomberg View: Get Behind the Gang of Six; Obama's Right on CFPB
BusinessWeek 07/21/2011
CBO confirms debt deal would save at least $2.1 trillion - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/01/2011
The supercommittee’s make-or-break question - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/17/2011
The 2010 U.S. Deficit Commission report.
10/25/2010
Grouped Articles
Key Tax Breaks at Risk as Panel Looks at Cuts
Wall Street Journal 10/25/2010
Deficit Commission’s $200 Billion in Proposed Spending Cuts
Wall Street Journal 11/10/2010
Deficit Panel's Leaders Push Cuts
Wall Street Journal 11/08/2010
Deficit-Cutting Chairmen Call Washington's Bluff
Wall Street Journal 11/12/2010
Wall Street Journal 11/11/2010
Deficit Reduction Plan Draws Scorn From Left and Right
New York Times 11/11/2010
The Bush tax cuts in 2010.
08/05/2010
In the face of rising deficits, and questions about the future solvency of Medicare and Social Security, there are questions about the Bush tax cuts which expire in December 2010 if not renewed. With high unemployment the consensus seems to be to leave the tax cuts in place for a limited period, and have serious conversation about taxes when a new presidential term begins. A Value added Tax has been suggested by Paul Volcker, similar to that in Europe.
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The Wisdom and Folly of the Bush Tax Cuts
BusinessWeek 08/05/2010
New York Times 08/21/2010
Bush Tax Cuts: Now That's Rich
New York Times 08/22/2010
Why the Rich Donât Need a Tax-Cut Extension
New York Times 09/25/2010
Tax-Cut Vote Shows Democratic Divide
Wall Street Journal 12/03/2010
New York Times 12/02/2010
The Republican U.S. Budget proposal made by Paul Ryan in 2012
09/16/2010
Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, has outlined a bold proposal to bring the U.S. budget deficits down from the $1 trillion level of the last 3 years. It would bring changes to Medicare and Medicaid, and reduce the individual and corporate income tax levels from 35% to 25%. Medicare would become a premium support system with the government paying the premium for an array of private insurance plans, and Medicaid would become a block grant system.
Grouped Articles
Budget Shell Games Are Contrary to Law
Wall Street Journal 07/14/2011
GOP Hopefuls Betting Voters Want Deep Cuts
Wall Street Journal 07/18/2011
Charlie Rose Talks to Paul Ryan
BusinessWeek 09/16/2010
House GOP Budget Seeks Balance by 2015
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2011
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2011
Ryan's Plan for Medicare Is Huge Bet by GOP
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2011
U.S. President Obama's Deficit Reduction Plan in April, 2011.
04/13/2011
The budget deficit reduction plan proposed by President Obama in an address at George Washington University on April 14, 2011.
Grouped Articles
Budget Shell Games Are Contrary to Law
Wall Street Journal 07/14/2011
Bob Woodward: The inside story of how Obama and Boehner negotiate - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/07/2013
Budget Deficit Returns to Prerecession Levels
Wall Street Journal 10/16/2014
U.S. Racks Up Smallest Deficit Since 2007
Wall Street Journal 01/14/2015
Wall Street Journal 04/14/2011
President Obama, Reinvigorated
New York Times 04/13/2011
The view that the burden of U.S. deficit reduction is falling on the elderly, the poor and the middle class
01/20/2010
Bernie Sanders and other leaders who see this as a problem with the plans for U.S. deficit reduction that are under discussion.
Grouped Articles
Low Interest Rates Are Squeezing Seniors
Wall Street Journal 03/30/2010
Americaâs Sinking Middle Class
New York Times 09/18/2013
State of the Union: Obama Seeks to Narrow Income Gap
Wall Street Journal 01/29/2014
Bernie Sanders’s Revolutionary Roots Were Nurtured in ’60s Vermont
New York Times 07/03/2015
Similarities Aside, Bernie Sanders Isn’t Rerunning Howard Dean’s 2004 Race
New York Times 08/09/2015
Livin’ Bernie Sanders’s Danish Dream
New York Times 02/12/2016
The U.S. political system, politics and the U.S. Deficit in 2010-2013
12/30/2010
Republican positions that do not require offsets for tax reduction, and Democratic positions that go along with the status quo. The politics behind the debt ceiling talks as President Obama seeks re-election and advantage going into the election, and the conservative Republicans oppose any tax increases.
Grouped Articles
Budget Shell Games Are Contrary to Law
Wall Street Journal 07/14/2011
GOP Hopefuls Betting Voters Want Deep Cuts
Wall Street Journal 07/18/2011
Why we need a third party - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/26/2011
Bob Woodward: The inside story of how Obama and Boehner negotiate - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/07/2013
Wall Street Journal 10/10/2013
Why Democrats Are Dug in on Shutdown Impasse
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2013
The U.S. Debt Ceiling and Deficit Reduction Deal of August 2, 2011
01/16/2009
The deal finally put together by Vice President Biden and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell on August 2, 2011. The deal requires the setting up of a debt panel to come up with additional savings.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 07/13/2011
Budget Shell Games Are Contrary to Law
Wall Street Journal 07/14/2011
New York Times 10/20/2013
From Big Spending to Big Cuts, as Economy Stalls
New York Times 07/31/2011
Could this Deal Raise Budget Deficits
New York Times 08/01/2011
The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling
New York Times 07/31/2011
The two US Deficit Commissions in 2010 and the Deficit from Growing Health Care Costs
01/31/2008
Bowles-Simpson Deficit Commisssion proposals, critics say, did not adequately tackle the health care part of the US Deficit. Rivlin-Domenici Deficit Commission phases out the tax exclusion on employer-subsidized health care insurance. Both fall short in addressing the health care portion of the deficit.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 12/11/2010
In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
New York Times 01/07/2011
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
Washington Post 01/26/2011
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2011
New York Times 04/07/2011
Second Panel Calls for Cutting Military Spending
New York Times 11/17/2010
Romney, Camp, Ryan and the outlines of an approach to the U.S. deficit and the U.S. tax code
08/12/2012
Linked Articles
George Will: Romney’s presidential pick - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/13/2012
Dave Camp: Is Tax Reform Politically Possible?
Wall Street Journal 08/12/2012
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