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Is the Ultimate goal of the Republican Party to Bankrupt the United States?
Opinion: Patricia Johnson President Donald J. Trump increased the National Debt of the United States by $7.8 trillion dollars during his four years in office or a total of $1.95 trillion dollars per year. Donald J. Trump was our 45th … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Beautiful Bill, Budget Deficit, Budget Surplus, Economy, EGTRRA, Expenses, finance, Joint Economic Committee, Monthly Debt Update, news, PL 119-21, Politics, President Donald J. Trump, President George W. Bush, President William J. Clinton, Republicans, Revenues, statutory debt limit, Tax Credit, trump, U.S. National Debt
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The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 | Congressional Budget Office
The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 | Congressional Budget Office. Note from P.L. Johnson The budget deficit for FY 2015 is estimated to come in at $468 billion, which is calculated at 2.6% of GDP and will be the lowest … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA costs, Budget Deficit, CBO, Congressional Budget Office, JCT
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How Much Do You Know About the Bush Tax Cuts andTheir Impact on our Deficit and National Debt?
By Patricia L Johnson Each year the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) completes a projected budget for the next decade. The CBO projection in 2001 for the 10-year period of 2002 through 2011 indicated budget surpluses totaling $5.6 trillion dollars1 … Continue reading
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Tagged Budget Deficit, Bush Tax-cuts, Congressional Budget Office, EGTRRA, Legislation, National Debt, Tax-cuts, Taxes
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The Effects of Tax-Financed Spending v. Debt-Financed Spending
By Patricia L Johnson and Richard E Walrath President Clinton was voted into office in 1992 and served for eight years. When he took over the office of President we had three tax rates, 15%, 28% and 31% and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Budget Deficit, Budget Surplus, CBO, CRS, Deficit Financed Spending, EGTRRA, Eric Cantor, GWOT, Iraq, JGTRRA, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, President Bush, President Clinton, President Obama, Tax Financed Spending, Tax-cuts
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Starting Over with a Super Committee
By Patricia L Johnson The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform was created on February 18, 2010 by President Barack Obama. Section 2 & 3 outline membership selection of this commission as follows: Sec. 2. Membership. The Commission shall … Continue reading
Do You Know Enough to Have an Opinion?
Under President George W. Bush Individual and Corporate taxes were lowered. What that means is there is less revenue coming into the U.S. Treasury, which in turn increases the U.S. deficit. The tax cuts put into place during the Bush … Continue reading
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