Re: Fiscal Cliff Deal: $1 in Spending Cuts for Every $41 in Tax Increases

Larry -

Facts aren't good enpough for you?

Liberal lies better?

On Jan 1, 12:14 pm, Larry Talbot <larry.tal...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Lew. f you want people to read your cut and paste spew, you at least have to use a credicble source.
>  > Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 04:03:29 -0800
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> > Subject: Fiscal Cliff Deal: $1 in Spending Cuts for Every $41 in Tax Increases
> > From: lewc...@aol.com
> > To: opendebateforum@googlegroups.com
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> > Fiscal Cliff Deal: $1 in Spending Cuts for Every $41 in Tax Increases
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> > by Matthew Boyle31 Dec 2012
> > biggovernment.com
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> > According to the Congressional Budget Office, the last-minute fiscal
> > cliff deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama
> > cuts only $15 billion in spending while increasing tax revenues by
> > $620 billion—a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts.
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> > When Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased taxes in
> > return for spending cuts—cuts that never ultimately came—they did so
> > at ratios of 3:1 and 2:1.
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> > "In 1982, President Reagan was promised $3 in spending cuts for every
> > $1 in tax hikes," Americans for Tax Reform says of those two
> > incidents. "The tax hikes went through, but the spending cuts did not
> > materialize. President Reagan later said that signing onto this deal
> > was the biggest mistake of his presidency.
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> > "In 1990, President George H.W. Bush agreed to $2 in spending cuts for
> > every $1 in tax hikes. The tax hikes went through, and we are still
> > paying them today. Not a single penny of the promised spending cuts
> > actually happened."
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