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From: LindyBill	3/27/2010 2:06:04 AM
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"The road to Perdition." They just don't care. They figure they can bail out whatever they do with ever-increasing taxes. CBO on Obama Debt Orgy By Tad DeHaven on national debt CATO@LIBERTY This week the Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the president's FY2011 budget. The CBO projects that combined deficits for 2011-2020 under the president's budget will be $1.2 trillion (for a total of $9.7 trillion) higher than the Office of Management & Budget's forecast. The CBO projects that debt held by the public as a percentage of GDP will be significantly higher: One major reason why the CBO projects higher deficits than the OMB is because the CBO projects that cumulative revenue over the period will be lower (its economic growth assumptions aren't as rosy as the OMB's). But a lack of revenues isn't the big problem. The CBO projects that revenues as a percentage GDP would rebound from 14.5 percent in FY2010 to 19.6 percent in FY2020. The big problem is that spending as a percentage of GDP is projected to remain at post-war record highs throughout the decade:

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