2012 Poll

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The budget shortfall due to "Bush Era Taxcuts" can be easily remedied, by cutting spending. Then there is no deficit.

You're right, spending should have been cut in 2001 and 2003. But the "Bush Era Taxcuts" were both passed completely unfunded at the time (no spending cuts to live within the lowered government income).

Now that decision is coming home to roost. Unfunded tax cuts and unfunded wars. Now we have to pay up for the years of spending what we didn't have.

The choice appears to be not renew the tax cuts (eliminating most of the huge deficit) or cut a rather huge amount of government spending to live within the lower income the tax cuts created.

Which spending to you want to cut?

That graph is biased and leftist due to the very fact that tax cuts are NOT expenditures.

The graph doesn't say tax cuts are expenditures. The graph isn't about expenditures at all. The graph shows the dollar amount of different things that have contributed to our huge deficit. I don't see what's "biased" or "leftist" about that. It's just the reality of it.