STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

The deficit is dropping. Is this good or bad news?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/02/27/we-have-an-answer-the-nations-budget-wars-have-reduced-the-deficit-by-3-3-trillion/

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2014/02/nothing-to-cheer.html
[T]he 2013 deficit is $139 billion lower than Simpson-Bowles promised to deliver. . . .

This leads to a somewhat surprising proposal

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