17 February 2011

Federal Budget Tales

I'm in meetings all day looking at cleaning up the South Carolina Code of Laws, Title 12 (property tax laws) with a number of Treasurers, Auditors and Tax Collectors from around the state. It is about as fun as it sounds - and, no, these meetings aren't dealing with how much people pay in property tax (sorry).

There were three stories I wanted to share about the coming federal budget battles, even though I don't have time to comment on them today.

-- Obama budget plans shows interest owed on the national debt quadrupling in the next decade (Washington Post)

-- Paul Ryan vows to target Medicaid and Medicare (Politico)

-- Austerity Lite (Economist)

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