Kasz216 on 03 January 2013
| HappySqurriel said: Aren't these numbers over 10 years? Meaning the real numbers are $10 Billion in interest savings, $3.3 Billion in spending cuts, and $63.2 Billion in tax increases to solve a $1,000+ Billion deficit? Aren't over half of those tax increases already spoken for in terms of other spending increases? |
Yeah, it was meaningless on both sides to actually tackling the debt. I just found the chart interesting though from a "who won" perspective.
Essentially the Republicans didn't get anything.
They got crushed really.
It's kinda funny really when everyone was talking about how they were the ones unwilling to move.
