Generally, fiscal issues aren't what get me riled up, but the deficit commission's report recommending tax cuts for top income brackets and corporations while cutting Social Security benefits got me angry enough to write a post about it:
The deficit is a serious long-term problem that needs to be addressed, and that will require some compromises from both sides. But as an expression of the values of political elites, this document is appalling. It recommends that veterans pay for their combat injuries, working people take a payroll tax hike and social security benefits get cut so the government can offer large reductions in taxes for corporations and people in the top income bracket. Conservatives will try to argue that it offers more generous social security benefits for the poor, but it raises the retirement age so, as Paul Krugman points out, those who would benefit are also less likely to live long enough to do so. There's a lot of preening babble about sacrifice from the austerity crowd, but what it comes down to is the idea that the deficit should be balanced at any cost as long as it doesn't involve rich people paying more money.
The part about making veterans pay for their medical care is particularly outrageous, not only from the moral perspective that these people have already given more than anyone else is asked to give, but because it'll probably make costs go up in the long run. The elderly vets who now feel comfortable coming in early to get care are would be dissuaded from doing so until their problems become even more serious and expensive.
