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JoeMinarik

  1. Chairman Camp's announcement and The Big (Budget) Deal: bit.ly/ynKWoe
  2. @sanderdaniels Have looked. Interesting project. Good luck with release.
  3. Who would have known that the nation can solve the budget problem with cuts in "other?" New blog post: bit.ly/J5TAUp
  4. The role of capital gains taxation and tax reform generally in the budget fix: bit.ly/ynKWoe
  5. Washington Post (Krauthammer) column says raising capital gains tax rates reduces revenue. No (with fact backup): bit.ly/I9ubeB.
  6. My view on likely budget outcomes in 2012 - bit.ly/ynKWoe
  7. What is the limit on the health mandate? No consumer can go to the supermarket and say, "I cannot pay. Give me broccoli, or give me death!"
  8. These Valentines expire 2/14/12. Legislation to extend awaits choice of offsets (probably vegetables) for the chocolate.
  9. Sad history: Labor force participation now lower than EMPLOYMENT-population ratio from November 1997 through April 2001 (spare one month).
  10. @os_perry You're goin' to Disneyland!
  11. Postmortem on the supercommittee up at bit.ly/vppra5.
  12. mail.ced.org/owa/redir.aspx… explains Supercommittee failure and budget situation on BNN Canada.
  13. Steve Bell (Bipartisan Policy Center) and my op-ed "Supercommittee Has Way, Needs Will" appears in Politico (tinyurl.com/7pxj742).
  14. Recording of Washington Journal program yesterday is available at cs.pn/tRD46Z.
  15. Will do C-SPAN Washington Journal tomorrow morning at 8:30, speaking about Social Security solvency in light of negative cash flow.