October 15, 2009 5:25PM 

# Thursday Links 

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- [Don’t let the sticker price fool you](http://bit.ly/T8nQC): The Baucus bill would increase the deficit and cost more than $2 trillion over 10 years.

- There’s no getting around it. [There will be cuts in Medicare](http://bit.ly/256QZa).

- [The Supreme Court hears ](http://bit.ly/2RXAgx)*[Alvarez v. Smith](http://bit.ly/2RXAgx),* which will affect the constitutional property rights of many people around the country.

- Cato’s David Rittgers [debates](http://bit.ly/bhZd5) troop build up in Afghanistan.

- Podcast: [Baucus Plan Shrinks Health Care Markets](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=1004)

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