"As scandalous as the scandal was," said Roy Weitz, who runs a Web site called Fundalarm.com, "so far the big-dollar issues have escaped being fixed".
While there are 49 other issues of this series to go through, curious readers will find plenty to enjoy in this big, ten-dollar issue.
"It's big dollars," he said, "it's big issues".
There are big dollars at stake here.
Now, lawmakers are instead trying to put together multi-trillion dollar packages including big, controversial issues, whether new taxes or Medicaid cuts.
Reform has gotten lost among the "bigger issues" like capital gains and estate tax reform, and the contractors and firms involved are not big-name, big-dollar political contributors.
"The big issue is the dollar has to and should decline in value because the U.S. is running big deficits," said Eswar S. Prasad, a professor of economics at Cornell University and a conference participant.
These are big social issues".
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