Reasoners on the Interwebs: Columnist Veronique de Rugy Discusses Debt, Entitlement, & More on Bloomberg

Reason's economics columnist and Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy talks with Bloomberg TV about the debt commission's lackluster ideas to cut spending and balance the budget.

Click above to watch or go here. About 5 minutes.

De Rugy and I coauthored the recent piece "How to Balance the Budget Without Raising Taxes."

Comments

[Alan Vanneman]

Yo! Looks like Veronique really wore her debunking shoes to this one!

[hmm]

GMU economists have to be the bane of this administration.

[James]

I don’t get the graph that talks about Social Security, Medicare, and “Other Spending.” Early in the graph it looks like this adds up to about 60%. Shouldn’t it be 100%, by definition?

What did I miss here?

[Geena]

Veronique looks so angry in that still. Just when I thought I couldn’t love her more….