{"id":20196,"date":"2010-06-07T16:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T16:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/caroline_baum_debt_rising_far_bayond_an_easy_fix\/"},"modified":"2010-06-07T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T16:30:35","slug":"caroline_baum_debt_rising_far_bayond_an_easy_fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20196","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Baum: Debt Rising far bayond an easy Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Please note the headline above is the one given to this piece today in the local paper in the op-ed section&#8211;KSH)<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States faces a fundamental disconnect between the services that people expect the government to provide, particularly in the form of benefits for older Americans, and the tax revenues that people are willing to send to the government to finance those services,\u201d\u009d Douglas Elmendorf, director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, writes in a May 17 blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the current tax and spending gap to make fiscal policy sustainable is \u201can urgent task for policy makers,\u201d\u009d Elmendorf says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601039&#038;sid=acQoZ36ss8pU\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Please note the headline above is the one given to this piece today in the local paper in the op-ed section&#8211;KSH). \u201cThe United States faces a fundamental disconnect between the services that people expect the government to provide, particularly in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20196\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,670,595,149,151,585,596,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-credit-markets","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}