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Dealing with Deficits | |
Discussion Guides:Making Medicare Work in an Age of Exploding CostsSeveral powerful trends spell financial trouble for Medicare in the near future. The Baby Boomers, the Budget and Social Security Social Security is in trouble and no consensus has emerged on what approach the nation should take to fix it. Making Sure our Government Manages our Money Responsibly Bringing the federal debt under control will mean making tough choices, but people will only be willing to make such hard choices if they trust their leaders to act responsibly. How to Run Our Government Without Piling Up Too Much Debt In most years in recent memory we’ve spent much more in government programs than we are willing to raise in tax revenues, and the result is a mammoth federal debt.
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Changing Expectations
»A new report finds the main problem in getting the public to deal with our fiscal problems isn't opposition to tax increases or spending cuts -- it's their lack of trust in the government to spend their money wisely.  |
