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CBO: Obama budget underestimates deficits by $2.3 trillion over upcoming decade
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In case anybody thought that the annual federal budget deficit is going to improve any time soon. Whether he is deliberately trying to destroy our economy and way of life or not, Obama is certainly doing a great job of doing just that.

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Quote:CBO: Obama budget underestimates deficits by $2.3 trillion over upcoming decade

WASHINGTON — A new assessment of President Barack Obama’s budget released Friday says the White House underestimates future budget deficits by more than $2 trillion over the upcoming decade.

The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that if Obama’s February budget submission is enacted into law it would produce deficits totaling $9.5 trillion over 10 years — an average of almost $1 trillion a year.

Obama’s budget saw deficits totaling $7.2 trillion over the same period.

The difference is chiefly because CBO has a less optimistic estimate of how much the government will collect in tax revenues, partly because the administration has rosier economic projections.

But the agency also rejects the administration’s claims of more than $300 billion of that savings — to pay for preventing a cut in Medicare payments to doctors — because it doesn’t specify where it would come from. Likewise, CBO fails to credit the White House with an additional $328 billion that would come from unspecified “bipartisan financing” to pay for transportation infrastructure projects such as high speed rail lines and road and bridge construction.
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CBO: Obama budget underestimates deficits by $2.3 trillion over upcoming decade - by Hoot Gibson - 03-20-2011, 09:08 PM

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