Fiscal Cliff Deal: $1 in Spending Cuts for Every $41 in Tax Increases
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.
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 1:3 and 1:2.
“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....
Jim Lincoln wrote: Ah, not nearly enough taxes are being collected for spending cuts! The GOP has going to have prostituting themselves to the obscene rich, and agree to raise their taxes. So, all I can say is that all?
The problem is NOT a lack of revenue. In fact it can be proven that higher taxes do NOT translate to more revenue. In fact tax revenues have steadily gone up during the past three years, just not kept pace with spending. The problem, as Mike has stated, is federal spending which the current administration continues to take through the roof. Spending cuts need to be CUTS not just a reduction in the amount of increase as the current ones are.
Jim Lincoln wrote: Ah, not nearly enough taxes are being collected for spending cuts! The GOP has going to have prostituting themselves to the obscene rich, and agree to raise their taxes. So, all I can say is that all?
You're still bad at math and history, Jim. The entire problem has been caused by drunken sailor-like spending. Debt is not caused by lack of revenue, nor is Obama's debt caused by lack of taxes.
Ah, not nearly enough taxes are being collected for spending cuts! The GOP has going to have prostituting themselves to the obscene rich, and agree to raise their taxes. So, all I can say is that all?
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