to ask them to contribute a little bit more of the above $10 million salary to Social Security does not seem like asking a lot.
The predicament that Social Security is in some say has something to do with income inequality...
Now, both Social Security and Social Security disability are funded by the payroll tax, correct?
there is nothing that I would be more pleased with than a nonpartisan conversation about the debt and the deficit.
when we open up with blaming the Obama administration for debt levels that relate back to a war he did not start, tax cuts he actually tried...
there is a quality of this just being a very seamy and disreputable side of the legislative business
What are we going to do about the $1.2 trillion that goes out the back door of the tax code through loopholes?
if we keep pushing on delivery system reform, the bipartisan SGR, the 'doc fix' that we have included, we have lots of potential to dramatic...
If less of America's income is subject to taxation than otherwise would be, the revenues for the program are less than they otherwise would ...
health care cost is really what is driving our long-term debt and deficits.
from the political perspective, if you are a lobbyist for a big special interest and you go to the Appropriations Committee to get some spec...
we are proposing a mandatory toll charge of 14 percent on the roughly $2 trillion of earnings that are overseas and have not been taxed.
climate change is a wise fiscal--focusing on climate change is a wise fiscal policy, as well as for other reasons.
we run a health care system in the United States that is grotesquely expensive per capita compared to any other industrialized nation.
There are legal arguments and policies that fall outside a particular political ideology. That does not make them outside the mainstream.
My belief is that solving that problem with cuts while in a recession has been proven by experience to be a failed strategy.
You have said before, Dr. Elmendorf, that health care is a very big part of our debt and deficit problem going out. Is that still true?
I am actually not an opponent of earmarks, I am a great fan of my senior Senator, Jack Reed.
