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In other words, averting a HI shortfall for 75 years now would require an increase in payroll taxes by 1.97 percent (a 68-percent increase over the 2001 rate paid by employers and workers47), a cut in HI spending by 37 percent, or some combination of the two.
He negotiated a budget deal with Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party that controls a quarter of the coalition's parliamentary seats, thereby averting Shas' threatened withdrawal from the government.
But Druids have other reasons for averting their eyes when the sun and the moon merge.
It's easy to imagine Dick Armey and Trent Lott nudging each other with told-you-so glee, or Gore and Gephardt averting their eyes with a shudder.
The justification for the cuts rests upon a misapprehension of the lessons of the 1980s, a foolishly optimistic view of the certainty of economic forecasts, a confusion of public and private goods, and an almost willful averting of the eyes from the realities of the U.S. economy.