Saturday, August 29, 2009

We don't gotta report or see no stinkin' deficits

From WSJ: "Obama Care’s Real Price Tag--The funding gap is a canyon by year 10."

"As ObamaCare sinks in the polls, Democrats are complaining that the critics are distorting their proposals. But the truth is that the closer one inspects the actual details, the worse it all looks. Today’s example is the vast debt canyon that would open just beyond the 10-year window under which the bill is officially “scored” for cost purposes...

"The press corps has noticed the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that the House health bill increases the deficit by $239 billion over the next decade. But government-run health care won’t turn into a pumpkin after a decade. The underreported news is the new spending that will continue to increase well beyond the 10-year period that CBO examines, and that this blowout will overwhelm even the House Democrats’ huge tax increases, Medicare spending cuts and other “pay fors.”

You simply must see the graph to believe the scale of the budget gap:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203609204574314622075560890.html

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