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Obama's idea of 'compromise'
Rick Moran
January 1, 2013
What was McConnell thinking?
The fiscal cliff deal passed by the Senate contains $1 in spending cuts for every $41 in tax hikes.
Brietbart:
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.
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