I have to say that my single greatest reservation about it is that I worry that it will be populated with a lot of people who are fiscal, economic brilliant people but who don't really have the specialized sense of how delivery system reform can and must take place.
Whitehouse expresses concern about the expertise of those in a proposed commission.
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These cliffs, I think, are really hard for people that get caught by surprise by them, and they are also, it seems to me, pretty terrible just public policy.
Reforming Social Security's payroll tax cap and treating investment income like wages could close more than 100 percent of the long-term financing gap.
I assert that our Tax Code has been corrupted by special interests, that powerful interests rich enough to pay for lobbyists and fund Super PACs have looted our tax system to make themselves even richer.
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