Overly Political Criticism Debate Needs Economists This section has what politicians are saying on cable news stations which is pretty poor standard for actual debate over the policy There s a lot of economist backlash on this plan which is unstated here Pardon my frankness but who cares what Steny Hoyer and Eric Cantor say in soundbytes or slightly longer chat The budget plan has many economic predictions baked in that have been shown either highly unlikely or outright wrong by all modern economic theory For instance the unemployment rate falling below 3 Krugman and many many others have pointed these things out and this article needs to contain those viewpoints in more than a watered down he thinks it s not fair way