解决这三个问题中的任何一个都将是迈向解决美国长期财政失衡 — — 当前税率与美国债务上限争论煽动者所欲解决的长期社会保障费用之间的矛盾 — — 的重大进步。
Solving any of these three problems would go a long way toward resolving the long-run financing imbalance between current tax rates and America’s long-run social-insurance promises that the debt-ceiling debate’s instigators supposedly want to address.