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Immigration, Social Security, and the budget
So could immigration help entitlements and the budget? Sure, if it was principally high-skill, high-earning immigration. But is that the deal on offer? No. read more
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Topics: Medicare
Republicans against entitlement cuts? Seriously?
President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget plan includes some significant steps towards restraining federal entitlement spending, including indexing Social Security benefits to the chained CPI and increasing premiums for high-income Medicare beneficiaries. Of course, some people believe that the president’s modest … read more
If you could only know one thing about the US debt problem, you would want it to be this
The White House hates Medicare cuts except when it doesn’t
The always observant Peter Suderman: The Office of Management and Budget’s report on sequestration complains that GOP alternatives to the spending reductions are wrong partly because they “fail to address Medicare sequestration.” Yet the White House’s whole theory of Medicare reform is built … read more
Yuval Levin on means testing Medicare and Social Security
Ask the scholars: State of the Union
In his inaugural address, Obama suggested our burgeoning entitlement state isn’t a problem. He’s wrong
Charts: Is the big US budget problem entitlement spending or defense spending?
