[Moderator] STRASSEL To Trump:
You have made a lot of promises and you have also - you’re the only candidate who has said he would not touch entitlements.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has estimated that your ideas would cost an additional $12 trillion to $15 trillion over the next 10 years and that we would have to have annual economic growth of anywhere from 7.7 percent to 9 percent annually to pay for them.
“The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has estimated that your ideas would cost an additional $12 trillion to $15 trillion over the next 10 years”
Well gosh. If The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says it, and Strassel endorses it, then I guess we all need to accept it as gospel. /s
“” She [Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget] has signed up Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, currently the two biggest celebrities in corporate America, as her “co-founders,” and stacked her steering committee with well-connected bigwigs, like Steve Rattner, the private-equity magnate and former Obama auto czar, and JP Morgan Vice Chairman Jimmy Lee.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/111355/how-one-woman-made-budget-scolding-chic