The problem with this article is that it pretends to come to grips with the issues, while carefully avoiding them. The problem we have isn't with entitlements, that's only a symptom. The problem is that our population is growing older and way too few commentators really want to deal with that in explicit terms, preferring the convenient euphemism, "entitlement reform".

The fact is, in his first term, President Obama went way out on a limb in dealing with these issues. He is blamed,...

It would make an already complicated system even more complex

Possibly, but I don't care. If I receive a tax rebate, I don't really mind if it came through a complicated process. The simplest thing is not to have one.

It would create new tax inequities.

Any change in tax policy creates new tax inequities. Dornfeld argues here that poorer outstate residents, would see their already low tax bills lowered. And he complains that the rich would a benefit they don't need. So...

Think of it as a down payment. Mr. Lew now knows a bit about the vast riches that await him once he leaves office, assuming that he does what the financial institutions want him to do.

In saying "nobody" I was engaging in a little message board hyperbole, of course; there is always someone out there who believes something. But in the case of Obamacare, it's supposedly objectionable features were taken from Republican proposals and were enacted in Massachusetts, where any constitutional problems went undetected. There is no doubt in my mind, that had the same proposals been enacted under a Republican president, the Supreme Court would have decided the issue 9 to zero in it'...