"When it comes down to it, this is a proposal to get people to pay more for their health care and retirement. With money they don't have. That's the bottom line."—David Dayen (aka D-Day), on the recommendations of the Obama administration's bipartisan Deficit Commission, which are heavy with spending cuts of the sort you might expect to see proposed by people who'd like "to cut government...down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
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