vincentML
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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy Happy Now! This one is on the President and The Democrats... Screw the middle class. Even with deal, 77.1% of U.S. households would take a hit Good Lord. The Left has been pissing, moaning and whining about tax rates being at their lowest, but they don't want to tax anyone but the uber-rich. The automatic spending cuts were only $109B?!? That's it?!?!?! That's what...10% of our budget deficit from 2012?!?!? That was the horrible cuts that had to be averted?!? FFS, we're all screwed. There isn't enough money in the US to keep up with our spending and to start paying down our debts. Gotta agree with you, DS. A crappy deal per Jeffrey Sachs: Here are the simple facts. Government spending today is around 23 percent of Gross Domestic Product, including 13 percent for mandatory transfer programs (Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, veterans benefits, military retirement, and others), 2 percent for interest, 4.5 percent for the military, and 3.5 for civilian programs. Taxes are around 16 percent of GDP, but would probably produce around 17-18 percent of GDP in a more robust economy. Allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire today would have raised tax collections by around 2.5 percent of GDP, to around 21 percent of GDP by the end of the decade, thereby allowing the government to pay its bills assuming that the useless wars are ended and the bloated Pentagon budget is brought under control. The Obama-Senate plan will instead keep taxes at around 18 percent of GDP. The CBO will soon "score" the new tax plan; Democrats will be shocked at what the White House and Senate have given away.
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