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Fixing the Fiscal Cliff Will Hasten Entitlement Crisis

tuttletacoma Wrote: Nov 21, 2012 8:09 PM

the lefties convenietly forget the 25 trillion dollars wasted on the war on [poverty and other failed anti poverty programs the whiners complain about Iraq and Afghanistan but by comparison these wars pale when compared to the wasted money that was spent on the war on drugs and the war of poverty and the failed efforts to shore up the school system run by the teacher's unions Reagan was right, govt is the problem that makes everything worse

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Virginia_Smoked_Hamm Wrote: Nov 21, 2012 8:17 PM

Be thankful that your wheelchair,hospital costs, and nursing care is paid for.

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Fixing the Fiscal Cliff Will Hasten Entitlement Crisis

The coming fiscal cliff's mix of tax hikes and spending cuts are projected to seriously hamper economic growth over the next two years, and Congressional leaders would be wise to negotiate fixes for the problems. One of the more popular potential fixes, however, is only going to hasten the coming entitlement crisis by worsening the finances of Social Security.

A one-year extension of the employee-side payroll tax cut was passed in December of 2011. It's scheduled to lapse along with the other fiscal cliff policies in 2012. This is a particularly popular tax cut because it goes by and large...

Related Tags: Social Security Tim Geithner Entitlement Programs Congressional Budget Office Payroll tax cut Entitlements