The Progressive Deficit Plan (I must have missed the wall-to-wall news coverage of this one.)

The Progressive Deficit Plan - NYTimes.com:

I’ll need to work through the proposal, but one thing it clearly does is to explode the myth that there is no alternative to the Bowles-Simpson-type regressive proposal. A lot of inside-the-Beltway types have been trying to sell the notion that a severely weakened social safety net is the only possibility; it isn’t.