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President’s and GOP’s Positions Both Include Greater Tax Cuts than Spending Cuts
It’s hard to say what will happen with the necessary increase in the federal debt ceiling. But one thing is clear: Almost anything that the President and the Congress can possibly agree upon will not reduce projected budget deficits. Instead, it will increase them.
A new fact sheet from Citizens for Tax Justice explains the problem that both sides want to extend all or most of the expiring Bush tax cuts. And neither side has proposed spending cuts or tax increases large enough to offset the tremendous cost of such an extension.
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