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Chris Cox and Bill Archer: Why $16 Trillion Only Hints at the True U.S. Debt


Hiding the government's liabilities from the public makes it seem that we can tax our way out of mounting deficits. We can't. A decade and a half ago, both of us served on President Clinton's Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, the forerunner to President Obama's recent National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. In 1994 we predicted that, unless something was done to

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Posted: November 26, 2012 Monday 06:41 PM