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Gas tax increase or budget gimmick?
Is the President’s $328 B “Bipartisan financing for Transportation Trust Fund” proposal a gas tax increase or a budget gimmick?
The Congressional Budget Office vs. the President
If the President were to use CBO’s numbers, he could not say that his budget “cuts the deficit in half by the end of his first term,” nor that it “pays for what we spend by the middle of the decade” nor that “we will not be adding more to the national debt.”
The Schumer maneuver
Had Senator Schumer's argument come from the President, Republicans would be in a box. Had the President proposed specific Medicare and Medicaid savings, and argued for enacting them in lieu of Congressional Republicans’ cuts to nondefense discretionary programs, he could have matched their spending cut rhetoric while mounting a stronger defense of programs he favors.
Intro to nuclear power and the Fukushima plant crisis
Thanks to both Maggie Koerth-Baker and to Evelyn and Commander Mark Mervine (ret.) for their explanations of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Their work blows away anything I have so far seen in the MSM.