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Obama’s deficit commission recommends that less taxpayer money go to the United Nations and none to NPR and PBS

The Simpson-Bowles proposal is a very reasonable, well-thought-out plan.

Debt reduction proposal angers left, gets noncommittal White House response

President Obama released his deficit-cutting plan, which includes cuts to Medicare, Social Security and taxes

Leaders of Obama’s bipartisan deficit commission are proposing to reduce the annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security

Erskine Bowles, co-chair of President Obama’s fiscal commission, said Wednesday he thinks a value-added tax is called for

Erskine Bowles, speaking at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event, said that even with ObamaCare health care costs are going to “really eat us alive”

One of the heads of the President’s national debt commission called the problem a “cancer” at the National Governor’s Association meeting

We all know, liberals and conservatives, that the growth of the U.S. national debt is, to use a favorite word of our time, unsustainable

Clearly, VAT is not the solution; the problem is not a revenue shortage, but government over-spending

Two immovable facts face Democrats on President Obama’s fiscal commission: They don’t see any way to alleviate the country’s debt without raising taxes, and they know most voters hate the thought of any tax increase

Alan Simpson takes stand in defending Tea Party members: “They know something is desperately wrong”

Obama said he’s counting on the bipartisan panel to bring an end to “an already severe fiscal crisis brought on by decades of bad fiscal habits in Washington

Once critic said that the way the commission is set up to operate, with meetings in the nation’s capital but little engagement with the country at large, is ‘the same old Washington approach’

‘Our daunting fiscal challenges can be solved only through the efforts of experienced, principled individuals of good will,’ says co-chairs’ letter

Oxygen returns to Washington as Obama develops a health-care free agenda

President Obama on Thursday indicated that tax increases on people who make less than $250,000 a year will be on the table when a deficit commission makes its recommendations later this year on how to resolve the nation’s fiscal imbalances

President Obama is going to name Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, and Erskine Bowles, former chief of staff in the Clinton White House, as the co-chairmen of a bipartisan commission to recommend how to reduce high deficits that are building the national debt to perilous levels, according to a senior administration official