Moving The Goal Posts: Simpson And Bowles Renege On Their Own Plan For More Revenue

Moving The Goal Posts: Simpson And Bowles Renege On Their Own Plan For More Revenue: Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson and former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles will release a new plan today to reduce the deficit by $2.4 trillion over the next decade. The pair of deficit hawks previously co-chaired a 2010 commission on fiscal reform (which failed) and then released a proposal for $6.3 trillion [...]/p