GOP wants credit for fiscal prudence without political cost

... the incentives for charitable giving or homeownership. He has proposed modest brakes on the growth of Social Security and Medicare, to the horror of more rigid members of his party. Some Republican leaders responded dismissively. The entitlement ...

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