{"id":4592,"date":"2012-02-23T18:12:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2012-02-23T18:12:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:12:32","slug":"the-big-deficit-lie-every-gop-debt-plan-leaves-us-with-more-debt-derek-thompson-business-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-big-deficit-lie-every-gop-debt-plan-leaves-us-with-more-debt-derek-thompson-business-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Deficit Lie: Every GOP Debt Plan Leaves Us With More Debt – Derek Thompson – Business – The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Big Deficit Lie: Every GOP Debt Plan Leaves Us With More Debt – Derek Thompson – Business – The Atlantic<\/a> <\/p>\n

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This graph compares the moderate estimates for each candidates’ debt plan against the president’s. This is all smart guesswork, mind you, but it offers a nonpartisan view of the sort of "deficit reduction" we’re really getting under these proposals. This Y-axis starts at 60, which is the target debt\/GDP ratio for CRFB. <\/p>\n

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The Big Deficit Lie: Every GOP Debt Plan Leaves Us With More Debt – Derek Thompson – Business – The Atlantic This graph compares the moderate estimates for each candidates’ debt plan against the president’s. This is all smart guesswork, mind you, but it offers a nonpartisan view of the sort of "deficit reduction" we’re … Continue reading The Big Deficit Lie: Every GOP Debt Plan Leaves Us With More Debt – Derek Thompson – Business – The Atlantic<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}