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CBO Sleight-of-Hand

…only by distorting the worst-case and median cases does the Administration produce scenarios under which the Social Security Trust Fund—if credited with its accruals as the Greenspan Commission intended (see…

Boomer life experience

EEOC offers this information: The Commission heard testimony from a number of experts on the impact of the economic crisis on older workers, the legal issues surrounding age discrimination today,…

Irish Bailout–impact on taxes uncertain

by Linda Beale Irish Bailout–impact on taxes uncertain crossposted with Ataxingmatter As plans for the $100 billion bailout of the Irish economy and banking system by the European Commission, International…

Ratings agencies nailed.

commission on Thursday that almost half the mortgages Clayton sampled from the beginning of 2006 through June 2007 failed to meet crucial quality benchmarks that banks had promised to investors….

A cut in payroll taxes? Heck no.

…reasonable for anyone addressing the utterly corrupt and degraded “catfish” deficit commission soldouts. He proposed a cut in payroll taxes, to be made revenue neutral by following through on the…

Alan Simpson on Social Security

…regarding “the federal deficit” not worth exploring except he still is co-chair on the Deficit Commission. Update: Mr. Simpson’s apology is here… http://library.constantcontact.com/doc209/1102372204926/doc/nP49Pz07tDokfhHd.pdf “I can see that my remarks have…

US warfare spending

…push for austerity is now on the ‘cat food for oldsters commission’ train, and the drive is to attack human resources costs as too high and/or identify the need to…