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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (73770)2/3/2000 8:57:00 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I see the numbers do indeed show the budget requests were slightly smaller than actual spending. I'd seen somewhere before that the reverse was true but that may have applied to the Reagan-Bush years together.

Nevertheless, the difference is pretty small ($197 billion) in comparison to the deficits for those years. The federal debt increased by about $1.7 trillion during those years.

BTW, compounding the annual deltas between proposed and actual spending does NOT mean that 1989 spending would have been 24% smaller without those deltas as the Reagan website implies. If spending had been exactly equal to Reagan's budget proposals, the 1989 deficit would still have been about $100 billion and the federal debt would still have increased by about $1.5 trillion over the Reagan years.
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