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Senate Democrats release first budget in four years
Fox News ^ | March 13, 2013

Posted on 03/13/2013 1:37:23 PM PDT by Sopater

The Senate on Wednesday presented its first budget in four years, a proposal by leaders of the Democrat-controlled chamber that calls for nearly $1 trillion in tax increases but includes no strategy to make federal revenue match spending in the coming years.

The plan calls for $975 billion in new tax revenue through closing loopholes and ending deductions and credits benefiting corporations and the country’s highest wage earners.

It also calls for $100 billion in new stimulus spending while cutting $1.85 trillion from the deficit over 10 years. The rest of the savings would come through spending cuts.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; spending; taxes
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To: Sopater

Democrats lay awake at night thinking up new ways to get their hands on your wallet.

They don’t care that they are already down to sucking the marrow from our bones.

They knmow that the ore money they feed into the federal government, the more money they can steal, scam and redirect to their pals and supporters.


21 posted on 03/13/2013 2:35:59 PM PDT by Iron Munro (I miss America, don't you?)
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To: Sopater

Maybe they could outsource their jobs to the Duma in PuTinLand,, 4 years? wow.


22 posted on 03/13/2013 3:06:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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