First Budget Seeks Specifics From 2016 Candidates

Iowa voters can play a critical role in encouraging the presidential candidates to explain how they would deal with the $18 trillion federal debt, according to a guest column this week in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.

“Voters deserve to hear more than empty promises and simplistic solutions,” write Sara Imhof and Kim Reem. Both are involved in First Budget, a joint initiative of The Concord Coalition and Fix the Debt.

Iowa voters can play a critical role in encouraging the presidential candidates to explain how they would deal with the $18 trillion federal debt, according to a guest column this week in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.

“Voters deserve to hear more than empty promises and simplistic solutions,” write Sara Imhof and Kim Reem. Both are involved in First Budget, a joint initiative of The Concord Coalition and Fix the Debt.

“If (presidential candidates) promise tax cuts or more spending, how will they pay for them without increasing the debt?” ask Reem and Imhof, who is Concord’s education and grassroots advocacy director. “How do they plan to put important programs like Social Security and Medicare on a more sustainable track?”