Jacob J. Lew: “We are seeing thousands of people leave Puerto Rico for the mainland, and they are American citizens.”

If we do not have the resources to hire the enforcement officers that we need, the tax gap will only grow.

We can't just cut the things that we need to grow in order to reduce the deficit more in the short run.

I totally agree, and I was trying to indicate in my response earlier that the risk is being borne by taxpayers on an ongoing basis and the conservatorship is not over.

I don't think defaulting on payments to veterans is any better than defaulting on payments to foreign bond holders.