Thursday, April 14, 2011

How Bad Is The US Deficit?

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How bad is the US deficit?

Bad.

Consider:
Under the Obama tax plan, the Bush rates would be repealed for the top brackets. Yet the "cost" of extending all the Bush rates in 2011 over 10 years was about $3.7 trillion. Some $3 trillion of that was for everything but the top brackets—and Mr. Obama says he wants to extend those rates forever. According to Internal Revenue Service data, the entire taxable income of everyone earning over $100,000 in 2008 was about $1.582 trillion. Even if all these Americans—most of whom are far from wealthy—were taxed at 100%, it wouldn't cover Mr. Obama's deficit for this year.
Note that's just this year's deficit -- it doesn't even begin to address the mountain of accumulated debt. The WSJ article concludes:
Mr. Obama ludicrously claimed that Mr. Ryan favors "a fundamentally different America than the one we've known throughout most of our history." Nothing is likelier to bring that future about than the President's political indifference in the midst of a fiscal crisis.
And the band played on.

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"... nothing intellectually compelling or challenging.. bald assertions coupled to superstition... woefully pathetic"