INFORMING AMERICA
You - and the people who work with you…
DID BUILD THAT!!!!
Today’s Goal
Convince you to talk to others
To inform...persuade...win the argument
Before it’s too late
Financially -
While you still have the freedom to do so
$2.0TRILLION
DRACONIAN CUTS?
Congressional Budget Office, House Budget Committee
$3.8TRILLION
$4.9TRILLION
$6.0TRILLION
Ob
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Hou
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Act
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Act
ual
ONE-YEAR SPENDING
$17TRILLION
DRACONIAN CUTS?
Office of Management and Budget; Congressional Budget Office, House Budget Committee
$30TRILLION
$40TRILLION
$47TRILLION
Ob
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Hou
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Act
ual
Act
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TEN-YEAR SPENDING
Bush1st term
$0.8TRILLION
“BUFFETT TAX” WON’T WORK
Office of Management and Budget, Joint Committee on Taxation
2001-2004
Bush2nd term
$1.2TRILLION
2005-2008 2009-2012
Obama
$5.3TRILLION
4 years of
“Buffett tax”
$20BILLION
?
QUESTIONS?
