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Here’s this morning’s Tom Toles cartoon from the Washington Post.  Kind of says it all…  One might imagine the tune of “Ring Around the Rosie” in the background…

I happen to have organized a special one-day conference of the National Tax Association on “Attaining Fiscal Sustainability: State & Local Perspectives and the Federal Outlook,” this Friday, Sept. 26, here in DC (at the Urban Institute).  The program and registration form is available on the NTA website; advance registration by tomorrow (Thursday) is required.  You will see we have a lot of prominent policy experts from within and outside the Beltway, a Member of Congress (if he’s not too busy on Friday…), and a special appearance of the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour of IOUSA movie fame (Dave Walker, Bob Bixby, Belle Sawhill, and Alison Fraser) to kick it all off.  Gene Steuerle, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s new VP, is the luncheon speaker.  (The fee is only $20 which includes continental breakfast and lunch, and the room only holds 125 people, so fax your registration form into the NTA as soon as you can–and by no later than Thursday.)