Krugman is writing about the right’s plans to reform entitlements. (It’s important to understand throughout this that Krugman isn’t as concerned<\/a> about our deficits as a lot of other politicians and policy thinkers.) He criticizes<\/a> Look, Krugman is under no contractual obligation to agree with anything<\/i> The current debate about the budget usually goes something like this: The left says the right has no ideas (or at least no new ideas) and the right says the left has no good ideas (or at least no ideas that won’t blow up the size of government). So here I go: I do think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe idea of putting a hard budget on Medicare (as Paul Ryan’s plan
\nwould do) as an act of Republican hypocrisy. He is against
\nmeans-testing entitlements, because he’s afraid<\/a>
\nthat making Social Security mainly a benefit for the poor will make it
\nunpopular. These are technically defensible positions (Republicans are<\/i>
\nbeing hypocritical on Medicare cuts, and means-testing entitlements
\nmight erode their popularity). But let’s agree that these are, in fact,
\n“serious discussions” worth having. Putting entitlements on a tighter budget has left-of-center defenders<\/a>. Focusing aid on those who need it most is a reasonable solution to cutting costs in an underfunded program. <\/p>\n
\nRepublicans say. At the end of the day, my sense is he thinks
\nentitlements don’t need an overhaul as dramatic as others want. That’s
\nfine, and possibly even right. But it’s frustrating to hear him say
\n“the GOP has no solutions, the GOP has no solutions” and see him swat
\ntwo serious solutions out of the air because he doesn’t think the
\nauthors are being intellectually honest.
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