Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Robin Hood In Reverse: Presidential Commission Outlines $3.8 Trillion
Theft From The Workers, Seniors, The Disabled, And The Sick
with
Dean Baker, co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
A presidential commission’s leaders outlined a $3.8 trillion deficit-cutting plan that would trim among other things Social Security and Medicare, reduce income-tax rates and eliminate tax breaks including the mortgage-interest deduction, the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit. Deficit reduction would also make it harder to emerge from the recession, causing tax revenues to fall further setting the stage for further budget cuts. The Social Security retirement age would rise to 68 in about 2050 and 69 in about 2075. AFL-CIO Pres. Richard Trumka said the panel chairmen "just told working Americans to ‘drop dead.’" In an e-mailed statement, Trumka said, "The very people who want to slash Social Security and Medicare spent this week clamoring for more unpaid Bush tax cuts for millionaires." While the Commission’s Allan Simpson said the plan was designed to give members of the panel something to "chew on" for further discussions, it’s enough to choke the rest of us.
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