A Congress Problem, Not a Deficit Problem
Ezra Klein: "The single most important fact about our projected deficits is that if Congress does nothing, they go away. You might not like how they go away -- it's mostly higher taxes and sharp cuts to Medicare -- but they go away. That means that the deficit problem we're always talking about is a problem that we don't actually have yet. We just expect to have it once Congress finishes passing legislation that increases the deficit."
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