New at Reason: Shikha Dalmia on Whether the Tea Party Is Serious About Entitlement Reform

November 1, 2010

Anyone who has not been living under a pumpkin lately knows that the biggest threat to this country’s economic future is its enormous entitlement state. The massive unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security are a noose around this country’s economic neck that tightens every passing day. Given this backdrop, the Tea Party movement’s raging about out-of-control federal spending and the need for fiscal discipline might seem like just what the doctor ordered. But as Shikha Dalmia explains, the handling of this issue by the Tea Party and its anointed candidates might have arguably set the cause of entitlement reform backward—not forward—in this election.

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