Cleaning Up Our Budget House
A thought experiment: What would the budget look like if the United States were a middle-class household?
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That means even with this effort, dear federal government, hardly as austere as others, you remain deeply in the red.
Also in Slate, John Dickerson suspects a better, secret budget deal may be in the works. Fred Kaplan lays out even more potential cuts to the Pentagon budget. Timothy Noah explains why the GOP favors such inconsequential discretionary cuts. David Weigel reports on Republican Paul Ryan's critique of the White House budget.
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