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Conservative House Republicans’ Budget Proposal

Mark1369 Wrote: Apr 02, 2012 11:33 AM
I hate to tell you but this is the Paul Ryan budget for this year as he runs the committee[in the house] that develops the year budget.

The Republican Study Committee released its fiscal 2013 budget proposal this week and it’s not horrible. That’s probably a compliment given that the bar is so low on Capitol Hill that one would trip on it. According to the RSC’s numbers, federal spending as a percentage of GDP would recede to a bit over 18 percent in 2022. That’s a level of spending that hasn’t been achieved since George Bush and his fellow Republicans in Congress initiated the federal spending spree of the past ten years.

I give the RSC credit for wanting to rein in the size of...

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