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Here are the facts: you decide what they mean.

June 30, 2011 by

From the Washington Post, a comparison of budget proposals and their effect on US debt.

From the Washington Post, a comparison of budget proposals and their effect on the US deficit.

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Comments

  1. Michael Edward Kelly says
    June 30, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    I would hesitate to call any economic prediction that goes out greater than a year or two (some would say even less) a “fact.” Economics is, in many ways, a pseudoscience…

    • Daniel B. says
      June 30, 2011 at 9:46 pm

      The facts are that those are the projections. Whether they are accurate is another thing. Even if they are only indicative, the direction they are pointing is the wrong direction.

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