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...everything needs to be considered — including curtailing such popular tax breaks as the home mortgage deduction.

That's a bunch of horse-$hit! Maybe they should consider cutting spending. Curtailing the home mortgage tax deduction will be the straw that breaks the communist donkey's back. That will be tar & feather time.

[ReneeLynn]

The blind speaking to the deaf. Yeah, this should work out. /s

[Snickering Hound]

Vichy collaborator republicans strike again.

[nhwingut]

Good to see the debt panel gimmick is working as planned.

[benewton]

Cut spending, morons.

[Siena Dreaming]

Simpson said the entirety of the nation's current discretionary spending is consumed by the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security programs. "The rest of the federal government, including fighting two wars, homeland security, education, art, culture, you name it, veterans, the whole rest of the discretionary budget, is being financed by China and other countries," said Simpson. China alone currently holds $920 billion in U.S. IOUs.

Why no mention of Obamacare, Mr. Simpson?

[Captain Peter Blood]

Notice none of these Jerks suggest cutting spending and paying down debt. Their solution is taxes, more taxes and no deductions.

[Lancey Howard]

Simpson, as the Senate's GOP whip in 1990, helped round up votes for a budget bill in which President George H.W. Bush broke his "read my lips" pledge not to raise taxes.

Does anybody need to know anything more about that sick scumbag?

[blueplum]

they’d better keep their pea-pickin’ hands off my mortgage deduction if they know what’s good for them

[funfan]

“instituting a financial trigger mechanism for gaining Medicare coverage.” Does anyone know what this might mean?
I take it to mean that people will be mean tested for medicare but arent we all supposed to be on it since we now have national healthcare-So we get to pay into the fund like we do with SS but wont see any of it if we have more the 1.00 in the bank is does this just about sum it up

[84rules]

They say that without radical changes, debt will destroy the country like a cancer.

Maybe a radical curtailment of unnecessary and useless spending will help do the trick.