you could double the funding for low income education and social services and the eitc job training. this is a question that coming up a lot in budgeting. what is the best use of new resources? the question clearly here that we have seen is that social security is popular. again, people put their own money into it. we should take the trade off and expand it. i don't think we should fix social security, but neats for budgeting. we have a huge gap. we stro make social security solvent. this is the next project. to all of these parts would be interesting to see. the issue of saving and retirement. they are not preparing well enough for retirement. this is clearly an objective because we are not headed in a good direction. thinking about the big picture is important because budgeting is about trade offs. this is an open discussion. thirdly as i talk about in terms of what this particular plan would do to increasing benefitses for the well off. i think targeting of limiting resources is critical. we have to fix social security. the longer we delay, the worse the choices become. how we have

could increase funding -- you could double the funding for low income education, social services, the eitcjob training. so it's just a question of -- and i think this is a question that comes up a lot in budgeting is what is the best use of new resources? and i think the question clearly here that we've seen or the answer that we've seen is social security is incredibly popular and, again, people are willing to put their own money, not just somebody else's money, their own money into it. that shows a level of support. there's ploebl no other plm that's supported as much as social security. one thought i had was we should take the trade-off analysis and expand it to the whole budget. i don't think which should fix social security as part of the whole budget. i think it's better done separately but i think it's important to think about less compartmentalized approaches to budgeting because we have unmet needs in health care. we know health care costs are growing too fast. we have under invested. we have a huge fiscal gap. we have to figure out how to make social security solvent. so i think

could increase funding -- you could double the funding for low income education, social services, the eitcb training. so it's just a question of -- and i think this is a question that comes up a lot in budgeting is what is the best use of new resources? and i think the question clearly here that we've seen or the answer that we've seen is social security is incredibly popular and, again, people are willing to put their own money, not just somebody else's money, their own money into it. thats shows a level of support. one thought i had was we should take the trade-off analysis and expand it to the whole bulth. i don't think which should fix social security as part of the whole budget. i think it's better done separately but i think it's important to think about less compartmentalized approaches to budgeting because we have unmet needs in health care. we know health care costs are growing too fast. we have under invested. we have a huge fiscal gap. we have to figure out how to make social security solvent. so i think doing trade-off analysis, this is the next project that you can work on, bu

and third, we could add to that a boost to the eitc, the earned income fax credit which supports lots of american families at the very low end of the economic spectrum. we could could that by literally hundreds of gorls a year for millions -- hundreds of dollars a year for millions of lower income families. and again, there has been bipartisan support for expanding the earned income tax credit. so three important goals, all reducing taxes or adding to a tax credit, all should have strong bipartisan support. the american opportunity carbon fee act has revenue that could make our companies more competitive, that would give every single worker a tax rebate and could boost benefits for struggling low-income families. last month, the "des moines register" ran a column titled "carbon tax would help iowa, the planet." the column said this -- "the united states could take the lead by acting on its own, watch its economy grow and let the rest of the world catch up. in the process, the column continued, the united states would gain mastery of the sustainable energy technology that will drive ec