How Lawmakers Obsessed With Reducing The Debt End Up Short-Changing Children

How Lawmakers Obsessed With Reducing The Debt End Up Short-Changing Children: Republicans often portray reducing the debt — which they insist must be done entirely through spending cuts — as a matter of principle as well as good policy. “In my view, it’s not just bad economics,” GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in August. “It is immoral for us to pass these burdens on to [...]/p