Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Neil Irwin says Democrats won't touch upper-middle-class taxes. Republicans won't touch the big spending categories. Neither party is proposing a serious deficit reduction plan.
He told us lawmakers understand the deficit problem privately. They just won't say it out loud, and that’s why a Nightmare on Main Street could be coming: nolabels.org/NOMS-SC
Neil Irwin says Democrats won't touch upper-middle-class taxes. Republicans won't touch the big spending categories. Neither party is proposing a serious deficit reduction plan.
He told us lawmakers understand the deficit problem privately. They just won't say it out loud, and that’s why a Nightmare on Main Street could be coming: nolabels.org/NOMS-SC
