John Boehner says “we do not have an immediate debt crisis.”
Via Salon, David Sirota points to statements by John Boehner and Rand Paul:
America owes this debt of gratitude to Boehner after he finally came clean on yesterday’s edition of ABC’s “This Week” and admitted that “we do not have an immediate debt crisis.” (His admission was followed up by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, who quickly echoed much the same sentiment on CBS’ Face the Nation).
well, while we’re praising republicans, jon walker at FDL has 3 reasons the GOP is the best hope for protecting Social Security..
rjs
thanks. we live in hope.
ike brannon (a republican economist) says the R’s won’t go for the c-cpi because it doesn’t give them enough (doesn’t “solve” the SS “problem”) in return for the tax increases they are being asked for.
i hope he’s right. but i wrote to him about paying for the SS problem with a one tenth of one percent tax increase on those who will get the benefits.
he replied very nicely, but it was apparent he has a head full of the “non partisan expert” story on SS.
probably impossible to educate him out of it. doubly impossible to educate the rest of the people and politicians out of it.. as long as all the “Left” offers is “raise the taxes of the rich to pay for it.”
John Boehner sounds like Paul Krugman. Anyone catch a weather forecast for Hell? Freezing conditions by chance?
‘while ago from Robert Eisner to ‘uncle miltie’–
The Deficit: An Exchange
SEPTEMBER 28, 1989
Robert Eisner,…
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1989/sep/28/the-deficit-an-exchange/?pagination=false
The GOP knows that the chained-cpi also would be applied to tax brackets–thereby increasing income taxes, which they insist they won’t do. According to The Hill in 2011: The anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist and the libertarian Cato Institute are among those who oppose the idea because of its effect on the tax code, with Cato calling it a “stealth tax increase.” http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/169995-study-cpi-change-would-net-60-billion