Unbalanced Approach to Deficit Reduction

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Unbalanced Approach to Deficit Reduction
Posted by Jason Furman on July 19, 2011 at 7:30 AM EDT

Democrats and Republicans agree that getting our fiscal house in order is one of the critical challenges facing America. To address it we are going to have to make tough choices, bringing to the table a commitment to examine every area of the budget and every loophole in the tax code without presumptively taking any of the options off the table. But it is critical that we not bring down our deficits and debt at the expense of economic growth, innovation and job creation, or place the greatest burden on older Americans and the most vulnerable. That is precisely what the House’s Cut, Cap and Balance plan would do – a proposal that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney described as “duck, dodge and dismantle.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/ ... -reduction