Friday, August 5, 2011

Krauthammer: Debt-Reduction On Grand Scale Is Within Reach

Your preferences will be different. So will the supercommittee's. But it doesn't matter. What's important is to make choices that are deep, radical and revenue-neutral.

  • True tax reform that removes loopholes while lowering tax rates is the Holy Grail of social policy
  • Every dollar of revenue raised by stripping out a loophole is to be returned to the citizenry in the form of lower tax rates. 
  • Boehner was willing to increase revenues by $800 billion. Obama was reputedly ready to raise the Medicare age and change the Social Security cost-of-living formula. 
  •  It can be done. In three months. In three stages.
We'll see.

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