Reply #8: This is my problem with a lot of the reporting about this cochair report.

[Sirveri]

I've downloaded the report (as have you by the look of your quotes). The zero sum plan #1 is a garbage plan, I think we can both agree on that. But everyone seems to want to focus in on that option while ignoring "Option 2: Wyden-Gregg Style Reform". Then they put stuff in quotes that isn't in the public material and I'm suddenly left wondering where the heck these quotes come from. There is some acceptable stuff in these plans, it's also a draft. Tweak the Bush tax cuts out of option 2 and it suddenly gets a lot more interesting. I dunno... I'm just getting sick of all these doomer predictions, I guess I'd rather see people take the more progressive elements out of it and then tweak the bill ahead. Probably the most upsetting thing I saw in there for myself was the gutting of the CPB (to defund NPR), but nobody wants to talk about that one I guess...