CHART: Spending, Taxes, And Deficits Are All Lower Today Than When Obama Took Office

[kpete]

MORE:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/15/484767/obama-budget-chart/

[cthulu2016]

1. Tragic for America, but a good political argument

It is national malpractice of governance that the deficit and spending are this low, and mostly the fault of the Republicans.

But since a lot of folks do not understand that the deficit needs to be larger, not smaller right now this chart is a handy political argument tool.

Whatever works is fine by me.

[pinto]

2. Always a good, objective source, imo. The CBO -

http://cbo.gov/

Pays to avoid the spin that floats around.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. kick