William Rousseau: Skirting ‘hard choices’

Regarding the April 20 column “Passing the buck, hurting the poor”: Catherine Rampell wants “reform” without cutting services to the poor. “Capping federal spending ... without actually making the hard choices necessary to reform it is just another ... form of kicking the can down the road,” she said.

The “hard choices” she referred to mean that some people who are getting benefits now will no longer receive those benefits. Who gets to make those “hard choices” determines whether a single entity, i.e., Congress, must be lobbied or whether multiple state legislatures must be lobbied. The clear purpose of such lobbying is to make sure that the “hard choices” never get made.

This story was originally published April 26, 2015 at 4:00 PM with the headline "William Rousseau: Skirting ‘hard choices’."