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Joshua A. Barro ’05, a former UC member, said that Nichols told him he had been faced with the choice of being impeached or resigning shortly before the UC meeting...
...told me that there was an ultimatum,” Barro said...
...Barro defended the current Republican plan of diverting part of social security payments to voluntary personal investment accounts, pointing out that the government currently uses social security funds for other purposes-—which it would not be able to do if they were in private plans...
...Democrats also stressed that Bush’s tax cuts will cost three times more than the social security deficit, which Barro said was “comparing apples and oranges...
Although criticisms were pointed on both sides, good humour won at the end of the day. When Barro quipped, “You ask Democrats what their plan is, and they criticize your plan, and then they propose a tax increase,” he was greeted with laughter from both sides of the room, which was divided down partisan lines...