Unless we deal with the underlying growth of the cost of health care, that is going to eat us up.
I think he has outlined the problem magnificently and dismally. It is not a happy picture.
I think we shortchange this whole process by saying, well, we are going to reduce the size of the Federal Government.
I would hate to see it turn into a pure leadership device, but leadership representation would be a very interesting ide...
The tax expenditures now exceed the actual tax revenues.
A lot of it comes down to people.
If we just collected the taxes owed, we would almost eliminate the current deficit.
My only concern as a policymaker is that we not be seduced by the rosy projections that never manifest themselves.
If you vote for the expenditures, you ought to be at the same time voting for an extension of the debt ceiling.
I think that is an important point, because there was a lot of talk at the time that CBO says ACA will cost 2 million jo...
As I read it, though, what you really found was it was the labor supply that you were analyzing, not people losing their...
Have you done any analysis of the economic effect of people being freed from their employer based health insurance and, ...
I think we are undercutting our own national interests by not being at the table.
I wish they would do it.
PAYGO I think did work, largely, in the 1990s.
I suspect you would see that there is a direct correlation between partisanship and low esteem.
You are straining at gnats and swallowing camels.
But I would also point out that there is another deficit that is not shown on this chart, which is the infrastructure de...
