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Old 07-24-2010, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Danzig View Post
The latest forecast from the White House budget office shows the deficit rising to $1.47 trillion this year, forcing the government to borrow 41 cents of every dollar it spends. Contrary to official projections, the budget gap will not begin to narrow much in 2011, because of an unexpectedly big drop in tax receipts.
We could let the unfunded Bush tax cuts expire. That would take out a huge portion of the deficit (that they caused)
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