{"id":187448,"date":"2011-06-24T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/24\/doing-nothing-balances-the-budget\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T01:21:00","slug":"doing-nothing-balances-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/24\/doing-nothing-balances-the-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Nothing Balances the Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No really, if you put everything on auto-pilot, and keep Congress from doing the &#8220;Doc-Fixes&#8221;, and allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/06\/chart-of-the-day-if-congress-does-nothing-the-deficit-will-disappear.php\">you get this<\/a>:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img802.imageshack.us\/img802\/8767\/cboextendedalternative1.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>The top picture, doing nothing, gets you a surplus around 2013, the bottom one, cutting taxes, gets you deficits as far as the eye can see.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans care about deficits like I care about William Shatner&#8217;s penis size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No really, if you put everything on auto-pilot, and keep Congress from doing the &#8220;Doc-Fixes&#8221;, and allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, you get this:The top picture, doing nothing, gets you a surplus around 2013, the bottom one, cutting taxes, gets you deficits as far as the eye can see. Republicans care about deficits &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}