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Deficit to Hit All-Time High (Tax Revenues Plummet, New FY 2010 Deficit of $1.6 Trillion)
The Wall Street Journal ^
| Sunday, January 31, 2010
| Jonathan Weisman
Posted on 01/31/2010 5:29:42 PM PST by kristinn
President Barack Obama will propose on Monday a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 that projects the deficit will shoot up to a record $1.6 trillion this year, but would push the red ink down to about $700 billion, or 4% of the gross domestic product, by 2013, according to congressional aides.
The deficit for the current fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30, would eclipse last year's $1.4 trillion deficit, in part due to new spending on a proposed jobs package. The president also wants $25 billion for cash-strapped state governments, mainly to offset their funding of the Medicaid health program for the poor.
This WSJ article fails to mention the plummeting of FY 2010 federal tax receipts the WSJ reported just a few weeks before:
Year-to-date federal government revenues totaled $487.78 billion, compared to $547.38 billion for the first three months of fiscal 2009. Individual income-tax receipts totaled $207.73 billion, compared to $255.29 billion. Corporate tax revenues were at $33.93 billion, down from $50.37 billion.
Last August, the AP reported that federal revenues were on pace to drop 18%, the worst since 1932.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010; bho44; bhodeficit; bhoeconomy; bhofascism; bhotyranny; budgetdeficit; democrats; economy; fourth100days; fy2010; liberalfascism; obama; obamasfault
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Just so this is clear. The $1.6 trillion deficit is for the current fiscal year which began on October 1, 2009. When Obama presented his FY 2010 budget a year ago, he
projected a deficit of $1.17 trillion. he was only off by a half-trillion dollars or so.
Obama is proposing a deficit of $1.3 trillion for FY 2011.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:29:42 PM PST
by
kristinn
To: kristinn
America’s biggest enemies could never have dreamed of hurting America this badly.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:33:13 PM PST
by
Hoodat
(For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
To: kristinn; All
But Obama inherited this mess ...
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:35:51 PM PST
by
BP2
(I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
To: kristinn
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:36:56 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Join the TEA Party Rebellion!! May God and TEA save the Republic!!)
To: kristinn
I think this news is what helped drive up BO’s approval numbers among DemocRATS in Rasmussen’s new poll.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:37:06 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(If the CIA and NASA are going to "monitor climate change", why the hell do we need the EPA?)
To: BP2
Of course!
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:39:15 PM PST
by
Oceander
(The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
To: kristinn
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:42:36 PM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
To: Jim Robinson
Obama is not an idiot, Jim.
He is a closet Muslim, American-hating, Fascist- loving,Saudi king bowing-downer, Saul Alinsky-loving Marxist.
But the man is no idiot. He is doing exactly the bidding of his master.
And we only have nine months to neuter him by removing the Dems from Congressional majorities on Election Day.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:43:21 PM PST
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
To: kristinn
Barkey has no clue about the connection between jobs, economic activity and tax revenues. Like any good Marxist he figures you just raise taxes in the face of unemployment to get more revenue.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:44:47 PM PST
by
YankeeReb
To: kristinn
You might also make note of the fact that Obama's "out-year" deficit reductions are based on a presumed increase in revenue due to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. In other words, personal income tax, dividend tax, and capital gains rates are set to skyrocket beginning in 2011.
The know-it-alls in Washington are counting on vastly increased revenue as a result - even in the face of mountainous debt and a persistent slump in credit demand. To believe that, you'd have to presume that such higher taxes will not further suppress economic growth, and perhaps that Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy will help take up the slack.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:45:38 PM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: kristinn
The black-market community is set to make quite a run. Hello America, here comes Chicago.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:45:46 PM PST
by
eyedigress
( now.)
To: FlingWingFlyer; kristinn
I think this news is what helped drive up BOs approval numbers among DemocRATS in Rasmussens new poll.I've been wondering what could have caused the poll bump, I thought maybe independents had been fooled by his fake feint to the center at the SOTU and at the GOP meeting in Baltimore, but you may be on to something.
To: kristinn
“Tax Revenues Plummet....”
What would Alinsky do?
Step on the gas.
Raise taxes.
To: Hoodat
“Americas biggest enemies could never have dreamed of hurting America this badly.”
America’s biggest enemies are in the White House.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:50:14 PM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
To: smoothsailing
Democrats never admit a mistake.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:50:53 PM PST
by
eyedigress
( now.)
To: kristinn
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:51:08 PM PST
by
Gapplega
To: exit82
No, he’s just an idiot. He actually believes in his B/S Marxism.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:52:31 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Join the TEA Party Rebellion!! May God and TEA save the Republic!!)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
The $1.6 trillion deficit is for the current fiscal year which began on October 1, 2009. When Obama presented his FY 2010 budget a year ago, he projected a deficit of $1.17 trillion. he was only off by a half-trillion dollars or so.
Thanks kristinn.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:53:26 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
To: YankeeReb
"Like any good Marxist he figures you just raise taxes in the face of unemployment to get more revenue. "
It's the ROW Syndrome (Redistribution Of Wealth)...they figure those who still have jobs should now give even more in taxes to make up for those who stupidly lost their jobs.
The people who lost jobs were just collateral damage in the obamaTATOR's quest to kill the American economy, but the people who still have jobs will just have to give more to make up for it.
Remember the old adage that "it's easier to get a new job if you already have a job"?...we'll, it's also easier to save America while we still HAVE an America."
Remember November.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:55:11 PM PST
by
FrankR
(The ones of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
To: FrankR
He would have failed Sim City in 15 minutes.
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posted on
01/31/2010 5:57:16 PM PST
by
eyedigress
( now.)
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