Posted on 10/15/2012 8:56:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. budget deficit has topped $1 trillion for a fourth straight year, but a modest improvement in economic growth helped narrow the gap by $207 billion compared with last year.
The Treasury Department said Friday the deficit for the 2012 budget year totaled $1.1 trillion. Tax revenue rose 6.4 percent from last year to more than $2.4 trillion, helping contain the deficit.
The government's revenue rose as more people got jobs and received income. Corporations also contributed more tax revenue than in 2011.
Government spending fell 1.7 percent to $3.5 trillion. The decline reflected, in part, less defense spending as U.S. military involvement in Iraq was winding down.
Barack Obama's presidency has now coincided with four straight $1 trillion-plus annual budget deficits — the first in history and an issue in an election campaign that ends in Nov. 6.
Obama's Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, contends that Obama failed to achieve a pledge to halve the deficit he inherited by the end of his first term.
When Obama took office in January 2009, the Congressional Budget Office forecast that the deficit for that year would total $1.2 trillion. It ended up at a record $1.41 trillion.
The increase was due, in part, to higher government spending to fight the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s Tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan contributed to the deficits.
The budget gaps in 2010 and 2011 were slightly lower than the 2009 deficit as a gradually strengthening economy generated more tax revenue. But the deficits still exceeded $1 trillion.
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There’s a good reason for that. There was an original budget passed and a stimulus bill to boot after obama’s election. Since then, the US has been operating on continuing resolutions. That usually means that the spending is continued, uninterrupted and unadjusted, from the last budget. Since the stimulus bill was passed and its spending was incorporated into the regular operation of the US, it’s likely we have been spending an extra $800 billion each and every year. If you take the $800 billion away from the current $1.? trillion deficit, we get surprisingly close to the $440+/- deficit under W.
$1 trillion for a fourth straight year,or as Michelle calls it recovery.
Let her spend. Stuff the beast with increasingly worthless dollars, until she no longer has a penny of worth to give to her “progressives.” Then, without the millions of men manufacturing real wealth to sustain revenues of worth (as in generations past), we’ll see appropriately small and demure government.
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