Why Cutting Social Security, Medicare Or Medicaid Would Be A Disaster in Multiple Ways
While I'm in favor of smart reform of all of those entitlement programs, I'm more in favor of revamping the skewed tax code first, given the reality that multi-billion dollar corporations can effectively avoid paying taxes, and that billionaire hedge fund managers can pay at a 15 percent rate while the middle class pays 28 percent. Give me a better, more equitable tax system -- yes, I like the Fair Tax -- then let's talk about everything else.
