But Washington’s accounts have run $319 billion into the red since the fiscal year began in October, compared to a $225 billion deficit over the same period a year earlier.
Everyone else knows what the drivers of the deficit are as predicted for decades… It would probably be worse without the stimulus of the tax cuts. We have record tax revenue…
Treasury’s latest analysis includes this scenario. In that case, the tax cuts would cost $2.3 trillion instead of $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. A Politico report found that all additional revenue from increased growth would go toward paying for the cuts. The cost is too high for the tax cuts to pay for themselves. Instead, the deficit and debt would continue to grow.
The Treasury report projected the tax cuts and the budget would boost economic growth to 2.9% a year for the next 10 years. That prosperity would boost tax revenue enough to offset the tax cuts.
Two Other Reports Disagree
The Joint Committee on Taxation analyzed the tax cuts alone. It came to a different conclusion. It said the Act would increase the deficit by $1 trillion over the next 10 years. The Committee expected the economy to grow just 0.7% a year. It did not take into account the other changes in the FY 2018 budget.
The Tax Foundation came up with a second conclusion. It said the Act will add almost $448 billion to the deficit over the next 10 years.
First bold say tax cuts added 100 billion to the annual deficit, and and second says only 44 billion a year. The deicit is 800 billion.
Who’s right? It all depends on what assumptions you use. It seems most fair to simply look at the effect of the tax cuts. In that case, the Joint Committee’s estimate would be most accurate.
the 2.3B$ came from the Treasury department…you know who Mnuchin pet the same guy who stated "“Not only will this tax plan pay for itself, but it will pay down debt,” "
and that is “if” the tax cut becoming permanent.if they are not then there would not be as much added to the debt
so in the best case scenario if everything works out the assumption it makes is the tax cut would have added at least 5% do the debt…at least. the problem is the deficit keeps rising and rising and rising as the year drags on.
And yeah, screw those protesters in Hong Kong. They’re messing things up for our winning. But once again, it’s not only insane that the president is just ripping into the Fed(which other presidents didn’t do), but it’s his own ■■■■■■■ appointee.
And does anyone actually think Trump knows what the inverted yield curve is?