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Bill Frenzel is a former Republican Member of Congress from Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District, now with the Brookings Institution, www.brookings.edu.
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Jul 18, 2011
A reasonable reading of the following 34 brief essays in American Experiment’s newest symposium—What Governmental Services and Benefits Are You Personally Willing to Give Up?—suggests that more Americans than generally assumed may be seriously willing to sacrifice when it comes to major entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. In the interest of balancing the nation’s skewed books, the columns similarly suggest that more people than routinely thought may be willing to forgo various exemptions and other tax breaks, including near-sacred deductions on home mortgage payments.
By Bill Frenzel
Jul 11, 2011
I am one of those lucky people who receive government services that I could get along without. However, I expect to surrender my benefits only as a part of a grand scheme to reduce deficits and the size of government and to stabilize and eventually reduce the federal debt ratio. Such a grand scheme should consider the following components.
By Bill Frenzel
Sep 24, 2008
Our credit markets are in shambles. Few Americans comprehend the reasons for the system’s failure, but nearly everybody understands that it is “broke.” Ironically, a country renowned for devotion to free markets now seems to require the government to “save” those markets.
Sep 24, 2008
In response to the federal government’s massive new involvement in financial markets, on Monday I invited a number of think tank and other colleagues from around the country and Minnesota to address a purposely free-swinging question: “What’s a free marketeer to think?” We published four pronto columns yesterday and here, in what might be described as Volume Two.
