He would lower cost-of-living adjustments for most Social Security recipients, subject Medicare benefits for wealthier senior citizens to a means test and enact other changes to entitlements that would amount to about as much as the deficit commission recommended.
Killing the tax cuts would alone reduce the national debt by roughly as much as the deficit commission's entire proposal.
Some studies revealed that deviant performance on the Tower of London was evident not so much as a deficit in planning accuracy, but rather that patients were slower to recover from an incorrect move (Veale et al., 1996) or had longer movement times (Purcell et al., 1998 a, b ) compared with healthy controls.
And he added, "Reagan was pretty cheerful about saying that he didn't worry nearly as much about deficits as he worried about cutting taxes and strengthening the military".
Deficit spending in China has been running over 20% per year when you include state lending to state owned enterprises, local governments, and other entities where repayment isn't a factor, making that lending, for all practical purposes, pretty much the same as deficit spending.
As much deficit reduction as the elimination of earmarks, President Obama's proposed federal pay freeze, a 10 percent cut in the federal work force and a 50 percent cut in foreign aid — combined.
Between now and Thanksgiving, this committee is supposed to come up with as much as $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction measures.
But now the State of Texas is facing a budget shortfall of as much as $750 million, fueled by deficits in Medicaid and other state programs and rising costs for prison inmates, according to The Houston Chronicle.
Just considering Mr. Bush's promise to create private investment accounts in Social Security, Democrats argued, would add as much as $2 trillion to the deficit over 10 years.
