New York Times, Room for Debate — 16 Ways to Cut the Deficit:
Experts on taxes, health care, entitlements, the military and other federal policies offer their ideas.
- Ryan Alexander (Taxpayers for Common Sense), Set Military Priorities
- Rosanne Altshuler (Rutgers), Cut Mortgage Interest Deductions
- Bruce Bartlett (The Fiscal Times), Tax Consumption, Not Savings
- Andrew G. Biggs (American Enterprise Institute), The Disability Insurance Monster
- Karen Davis (Commonwealth Fund), Save Money, Save the Health Care Law
- Chris Edwards (Cato Institute), Think Local on Schools and Buses
- Ted Gayer (Brookings Institution), Impose a Carbon Tax
- Robert Greenstein (Center on Budget & Policy Priorities), The Rich Should Pay Their Taxes
- Jonathan Gruber (MIT), End a Health Insurance Subsidy
- John Irons (Economic Policy Institute), Increase Taxes on Investment Income
- Maya MacGuineas (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget), Put Off Retirement
- Ronald Marron (Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center), Clean Up the Tax Code
- Michelle Mello (Harvard), Reform the Medical liability System
- John Podesta (Center for American Progress), A ‘Risk Fee’ for Big Banks
- Samuel L. Myers Jr. (Minnesota), Adjusting the Payroll Tax
- Grace-Marie Turner (Galen Institute), Allow Real Competition in Medicare
