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  • Officials say stimulus bill to cost $75B more

    01/26/2010 1:58:45 PM PST · by mikelets456 · 8 replies · 436+ views
    Breitbart ^ | 1/26/2010 | ap
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Last year's $787 billion economic stimulus bill is going to be even more expensive—$75 billion more. That's the finding in a Congressional Budget Office estimate of the costs of the economic stimulus bill, which mixed tax cuts and lots of spending in an effort to jump-start the economy. The reason for the higher estimate of the recovery bill's price tag is chiefly that unemployment benefits are costing more. Plus, stimulus-subsidized bonds to pay for infrastructure projects are more popular than expected with state and local governments. Republicans have long blasted the stimulus for being long on spending...