As Supercommittee Fails, New IPS Report Proposes Better Budget Reforms
While the Supercommitee appears ready for failure, new report lays out reforms worth $824 billion per year – seven times the supercommittee’s mandate.
GOP Unveils Radical New Budget Gutting Medicare, Medicaid — Taking from the Poor, Giving to the Rich
From start to finish, this budget is a smoke screen obscuring a dangerous far-right agenda.
85 Percent? How Do You Figure, Mr. Ryan?
After promising his budget proposal would stick closely to the bipartisan deficit reduction commission’s recommendations, his actual blueprint looks like a work of ideological posture of his own creation.
Military Spending Cuts: Depends on what the Meaning of ‘On the Table’ Is
Let’s define budget cuts as spending less next year than this year. Nothing else should qualify.
Trojan Malpractice
Obama’s debt Commission’s plan is a Trojan Horse that would make GOP dreams of curbing corporate liability come true.
Will Pentagon Be Exempt From Budget Cuts?
With pressure to slash the 1.3 trillion-dollar federal deficit rising sharply, the public debate over whether to exempt the Pentagon from such cuts is moving rapidly toward centre-stage.
Good-for-Nothing Commission
No sane politician would vote for any of the changes the commission headed by Bowles and Simpson is recommending, unless he or she is planning to retire early.
Catfood Commission Provides Opening for Defense Cuts to Go Mainstream
The Deficit Reduction Commission surprises with recommendations to reduce the Pentagon budget.
Military Spending Takes its Place at the Table
The military spending cuts proposed by the Deficit Reduction Commission is both good and bad for a truly sustainable defense budget.