{"id":27055,"date":"2011-07-03T03:06:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T03:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mark_shields_and_michael_gerson_on_the_washington_deficit_debate\/"},"modified":"2011-07-03T03:06:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T03:06:27","slug":"mark_shields_and_michael_gerson_on_the_washington_deficit_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27055","title":{"rendered":"Mark Shields and  Michael Gerson on the Washington Deficit Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARK SHIELDS: On revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is this, that every single group, whether it&#8217;s Simpson-Bowles, whether it&#8217;s Alice Rivlin and Pete Domenici, whoever it is &#8212; semi-serious, we probably should have said &#8212; yes, there have to be budget cuts to deal with the deficit problem and the debt, but there have to be revenue increases.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s become a dogma with Republicans now that anybody who votes for a tax increase is no longer a member of the club or the party&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>MICHAEL GERSON: I think &#8212; I think Democrats are being equally unreasonable on the issue of entitlements.<\/p>\n<p>This is our long-term spending challenge. It&#8217;s not that we tax too little. It&#8217;s that we have expensive entitlement commitments, an aging population, and health care inflation that have made that portion of the budget completely unsustainable&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/politics\/july-dec11\/sandg_07-01.html\">Read or listen to or watch it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARK SHIELDS: On revenue. The reality is this, that every single group, whether it&#8217;s Simpson-Bowles, whether it&#8217;s Alice Rivlin and Pete Domenici, whoever it is &#8212; semi-serious, we probably should have said &#8212; yes, there have to be budget cuts<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27055\">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":[39,40,670,595,592,149,119,675,673,599,587,585,669,584,672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-globalization","category-medicare","category-social-security","category-stock-market","category-taxes","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-the-united-states-currency-dollar-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055","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=27055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}