bowles was thrilled. his plan for retribution for wells fargo was being pulled out the way he intended. there was probably a level of bravado here such that he often looked forward to his next attempt. bowles makes his get away over 120 miles through rugged terrain over the mountains back to san francisco p where a transformation begins. charles bowles is a truly awed dash shoes criminal. after committing highway robbery, he returns to high society to hide in plain sight. he has the ingenuity to avoid capture by developing an alter ego and living within blocks of the target of his crimes. bowles plan is a brilliant piece of criminal stat strategy.
for people for decades from when they ll receive benefits. others might support raising the income cap on the payroll tax. liberals may like that more but it s also a budgetary reform. on medicare, i think the simpson/bowles plan is a great place to start, slowly raising the medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 by the mid-2030s and expanding means tested medicare premiums. let s debate those options. and by the way i m not the only one who thinks we need to debate this. we re going to have to reform entitlements to keep them solvent for future generations. you re okay with raising the medicare ability age? with proper carveouts for people with health challenges, absolutely. our goal should be to explore any option to fund and maintain entitlements while also being
through at the end of the bush presidency. austerity is the solution according to the beltway. they want the government to spend less, which sounds great if you see it only as government spending and not as stuff that the government does. spending, that can t be good for anything, but stuff the government does, yeah, sometimes that s stuff we want. a week and a half ago, they tried to relaunch the magna carter, the simpson/bowles plan. the conservative american austerity idea been around for a few years now, but they attempted to relaunch it on the morning that ended up being the day that boston was locked down for 17 hours while the nation was transfixed by the man hunt for the boston bombing suspect. bad timing, right? both in terms of the optics of relaunching, in the midst of a massive and ultimately successful government effort to find that bombing suspect. that was the day that the streets of watertown, massachusetts, literally lined with americans crying with joy
through at the end of the bush presidency. austerity is the solution according to the beltway. they want the government to spend less, which sounds great if you see it only as government spending and not as stuff that the government does. spending, that can t be good for anything, but stuff the government does, yeah, sometimes that s stuff we want. a week and a half ago, they tried to relaunch the magna carter, the simpson/bowles plan. the conservative american austerity idea been around for a few years now, but they attempted to relaunch it on the morning that ended up being the day that boston was locked down for 17 hours while the nation was transfixed by the man hunt for the boston bombing suspect. bad timing, right? both in terms of the optics of relaunching, in the midst of a massive and ultimately suernmt effoo find that bombing suspect. that was the day that the streets of watertown, massachusetts, literally lined with americans crying with joy
we believe that our projections show that the balance we will submit will actually balance. it will balance at the same time the republicans budget balanced last year, which is out in the future, around 2040, because we put ourselves on a path downward. but our priority, our priority is to have job growth. and their budget will slow job growth at exactly the wrong time. but aren t you also building something that s false in the political climate that republicans face? i mean, here the senate budget requires more tax increases, roughly a trillion dollars. you know how difficult it is for your colleague here to go back to bakersfield or other conservatives to go back to the districts and say we need more tax increases when there simply isn t support for that. david, two things. one, the senate democratic plan has less tax revenue embedded in it than the bipartisan simpson/bowles plan, number one. number two, republicans in their budget say they re about $5.7 trillion in tax breaks t