Despite Shrill Rhetoric, Some “Rough” Common Ground

Some people on both ends of the political spectrum have criticized the recommendations of the President’s fiscal commission as well as other bipartisan deficit-reduction plans such as the one recently unveiled by the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Debt Reduction Task Force. Some of these critics favor other plans.

“With all the screaming coming from both extremes, you’d think the competing visions out there must be so vastly different that there couldn’t possibly be such a thing as a truly ‘bipartisan’ way to reduce the deficit,” says Diane Lim Rogers, The Concord Coalition’s chief economist.

External links:
Bipartisan Policy Center Debt Reduction Task Force