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Dem Budget = $1 Trillion In New Taxes

Mike

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What is it about Democrats that they want to spend us into oblivion?


The first budget from Senate Democrats in four years includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes but would not balance the budget.
The blueprint unveiled by Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Tuesday to her Democratic colleagues would also turn off the next nine years of the sequester and replace those spending cuts with a 50-50 mix of tax increases and spending cuts.
The budget would dedicate $100 billion to economic stimulus in the form of infrastructure spending and job training.
Murray argues that her budget cuts $1.85 trilion from deficits over ten years. But once the sequester cuts are turned off, Murray’s budget appears to reduce deficits by about $800 billion, using the Congressional Budget Office’s baseline. The Murray budget does not contain net spending cuts with the sequester turned off.
The details of Murray’s budget came hours after House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) released his budget, which reduces tax rates and slashes spending much more deeply that Murray’s budget.
The Ryan budget would balance in 10 years without raising taxes and by reducing spending


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Traveler

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Maybe they're figuring in for an increase in inflation and waste. A trillion Obamabucks probably won't go as far as it sounds. They'll always be back for more.
 

TexasBred

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Traveler said:
Maybe they're figuring in for an increase in inflation and waste. A trillion Obamabucks probably won't go as far as it sounds. They'll always be back for more.

Amazing how a 80 million dollar cut in spending will be total disaster for America, yet a trillion dollar increase is insignificant.
 
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