Showing posts with label Federal Debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Federal Debt. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Today's required reading

On this blog, we have been talking about budget deficits on the blog recently and I thought that some perspective on the factors driving the US debt would be worth considering.  Aaron Carroll goes into the real drivers of the debt: increased interest on the debt (due to tax cuts) and increased health care costs.  It is well worth reviewing in detail.