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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Topics: Entitlements

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Economics, Entitlements

Another entitlements commission?

Andrew Biggs | March 21, 2013, 10:18 am

It’s something of a Washington tradition to form entitlement commissions—and to mock them when they’re formed. That’s especially true when the sponsor of the latest one, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, states that the group would be “patterned after … read more >

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Economics, Entitlements

More Social Security, not less?

Andrew Biggs | March 11, 2013, 9:23 am

Josh Barro’s Bloomberg piece arguing “Don’t Cut Social Security, Expand It” has attracted some attention on the web, including a nice discussion from Reihan Salam here. In short, Josh argues that a) Americans are undersaving for retirement; b) private pensions … read more >

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Economics, Entitlements, Pethokoukis

Yuval Levin on means testing Medicare and Social Security

James Pethokoukis | February 20, 2013, 2:22 pm

The always-insightful Yuval Levin takes to the pages of The New York Times to clearly and succinctly explain how best to means test Medicare and Social Security. First, two broad principles: a) give rich old folks fewer benefits rather than … read more >

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Economics, Pethokoukis, Taxes and Spending

The US government: A weaponized entitlement machine

James Pethokoukis | February 5, 2013, 8:20 am

The WSJ’s Jerry Seib offers a helpful reminder of what’s really happening with federal government spending. While some folks like to focus on wasteful spending on, say, clean energy boondoggles like Solyndra or some unneeded Pentagon weapons system, that stuff … read more >

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Economics, Health Care

Why the ACA’s Medicaid expansion isn’t a good deal for the poor

Henrik Temp | January 30, 2013, 4:17 pm

Medicaid is the federal health program aimed at helping those with low incomes get health care. It’s an important program, but one that is becoming increasingly costly and difficult to sustain, with expenditures rising from about $75 billion in 1990 … read more >

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Economics, Politics and Public Opinion

In his inaugural address, Obama suggested our burgeoning entitlement state isn’t a problem. He’s wrong

Nicholas Eberstadt | January 21, 2013, 4:26 pm

It is official: America is not a nation of takers. How do we know? Because the President of the United States just said so. President Obama used the occasion of his second inaugural address to take on the question of moral … read more >

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Economics, Pethokoukis

Charts: Is the big US budget problem entitlement spending or defense spending?

James Pethokoukis | January 15, 2013, 10:48 am

This graphic from Veronique de Rugy and Jason J Fichtner of George Mason’s Mercatus Center simply and effectively illustrates how entitlement spending is slowly gobbling up the federal budget. And let me add two other charts, both from AEI’s Nick Eberstadt, that focus specifically … read more >

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Pethokoukis

Responding to Yuval Levin on the future of more tax hikes

James Pethokoukis | January 2, 2013, 3:40 pm

Yuval Levin is a reasonable guy. He looks at the above chart and draws a perfectly reasonable conclusion over at NRO: The idea that you can leave today’s spending trajectory in place and pay for it with rising taxes is … read more >

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Pethokoukis

Creating an enforcement mechanism for entitlement reform

James Pethokoukis | December 24, 2012, 12:25 pm

James Capretta, an AEI visiting scholar, outlines a way to bring Democrats and Republicans together on entitlement reform: Similarly, it’s imperative that Republicans not enter into a budget agreement without an ironclad assurance that it will result in real entitlement … read more >

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Pethokoukis

Krugman vs. … Krugman on doomsday cults and the national debt

James Pethokoukis | December 24, 2012, 9:52 am

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman uses the passing of the Mayan date of apocalypse as a news hook to attack debt hawks, such Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, as ”cultists” who keep predicting fiscal disaster is just around the corner: Regular … read more >

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