Thomas Friedman Thinks a 3 Percentage Point Increase in the Income Tax Is No Big Deal

Well, he didn't say that exactly, but we can infer it from his column. In this piece he again called for President Obama to embrace the deficit reduction plan put forward by former Senator Alan Simpson and Morgan Stanley director Erskine Bowles.

One of the central features of the Bowles-Simpson plan is a reduction in the annual cost of living adjustment for Social Security by 0.3 percentage points. After ten years this implies a cut in benefits of 3 percent. After twenty years it implies a cu...