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To: TimF who wrote (559184)	4/6/2010 5:39:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576180

His main point is completely true His points "BUT, if our elected officials would have kept spending to the rate of inflation during this period, our outlays in 2007 would have totaled $2.154 trillion resulting in a surplus of $414 billion!" "If spending had been kept at the level of inflation during this period, outlays would have been $2.229 trillion producing a deficit of only $124 billion INSTEAD of the $1.413 trillion we generated." (note its a different period than the other statement) are true. Here's a good illustration of the general point behind them But you're missing my point.......sure, you can't put all the blame on the tax cuts but what fool cuts taxes to millions of taxpayers while starting two costly wars?