The Debt Dispatch
Romina Boccia, Adam Michel, Krit Chanwong, Ritvik Thakur, Tyler Turman, David DitchYour insider source for honest fiscal facts and actionable insights that drive America’s debt debate.
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Debt Digest | Attempting To Inflate Away The Debt Makes Workers Pay
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Here are this week’s reading links and fiscal facts:
- Attempting to inflate away the debt makes workers pay. Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, writes that “Inflation has...
Who Would Pay If Congress Eliminated the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap?
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Eliminating the Social Security payroll tax cap is often presented as a simple way to close the program’s worsening financing gap. Setting aside that this change would at best close 30 percent of the fu...
Debt Digest: Higher interest costs drive deficit to 14% of GDP in 2056
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Here are this week’s reading links and fiscal facts:
- New database highlights appropriations dysfunction. The National Taxpayers Union (NTU) has published a database by Matthew Dickerson tracking t...
Republicans Should Cut Waste While Avoiding Pocket Rescissions
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On September 30, $810 million in appropriated fiscal year (FY) 2026 spending expired because of a Trump administration maneuver known as a pocket rescission. The rescission, which targeted spending that the a...
In the Press: Debating Social Security’s Future, Pocket Rescissions, and Taxpayer-Funded Campaign Ads
Social Security should insure against old-age poverty, not replace wages
On the Concord Coalition’s Facing the Future podcast, Boccia debates Wendell Primus of the Brookings Institution on how to keep Social Security solvent past 2032. Pri...
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Director of Budget and Entitlements | Cato Institute
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