Originally Posted By: Cheerio

so letting the bush tax cuts lapse will cut the average yearly deficit from 1.2 trillion to 1.1 trillion, and cost the average taxpayer $5700.


Without looking at your numbers, this is how cutting tax deficits works. Cutting from 1.2 to 1.1 trillion is not trivial, that is almost 10% of deficit! Other 90% will have to come from somewhere, like defense and social program cuts.

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