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Old 11-06-2010, 04:36 AM  
Major (Tom)
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Originally Posted by GatorB View Post
In the two years since 2008, the cuts' total cost grew to $2.3 trillion, the Tax Policy Center estimated.

So about 18% of the TOTAL federal defiicit can be attributed to the Bush tax cuts. Let not forget the medicare prescription drug act passes by a GOP controlled Congress and singed by Bush. How much has that cost another $500 billion so far? How about the pointless Iraq war? That's another 2 trillion?
I believe that wars do not count towards the deficit.
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