Decifit Issue News Today

Decifit situation. >> right. people do not believe the official projections. 81 percent of voters believe that the plan will cost more than is projected, 60 percent, as you mentioned, think its going to lead to higher deficits now that its passed. most say its likely to lead to higher middle class taxes but it stems from the fact that people believe that government programs cost more than theyre projected to cost. this is something people have built up over a long period of time. i dont imagine ...

Savings and put them into a medicare insurance fund that is real and actually makes the medicare system more solvent, and lets do a hard freeze, none of this freezeing in 2011, which is in the presidents budget, lets start the freeze today and get serious about that. you take those four items alone, youll make a fairly big adjustment in the long term decifit issue and get us at least righted, maybe not absolutely straight up, but well at least right the ship a little. bill: it seems like right n...

Simplifying the tax code, what has he indicated he might favor? >> you just ran a sound bite from the president on npr radio. he said we need a fundamentally different approach. the president has also said we got to have tax reform, direct quote. maybe the president is going to leapfrog over the current tax debate and look towards making looking at the decifit commissions reduction of tax rates and the elimination of some tax deductions, tax deductions for both corporation and for individuals. m...