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Serial tax dodger?
The idea I'm a serial tax defaulter is unfair.
The chronic revenue shortfalls from serial tax cuts are simply too deep to fill with spending cuts alone.
"Unseemly and disgusting" was the phrase one flack used to describe Gibbs's suggestion that the G.O.P. candidate was a serial tax avoider.
Over the last four years, federal revenue as a share of the economy has fallen to its lowest level in nearly 60 years, a result of the recession, the weak recovery and a decade's worth of serial tax cuts.
But by the time he left office, his profligate combination of serial tax cuts and unrestrained spending guaranteed the deficit would again loom over his successor.The severity of the recession spared Mr Obama, at first, from confronting the deficit.
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If growth recovers, the hole left by years of serial tax-cutting and overspending can be plugged: you need to find spending cuts or tax increases equal only to 2% of GDP to stabilise federal debt by 2015.
Although his actual intentions are unclear, he was undeniably a hard-headed, self-made businessman, a serial tax-dodger who sent lawyers after people who owed him money; he even bought a coat of arms to burnish his social status.
Moreover, Mr Bush's serial tax-cutting has masked some of the pain, letting Americans take home more money, even as their wages have stagnated.Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics, a consultancy, does not think the economy will cost Mr Bush the election.
Rich and poor alike voting for a serial liar and tax dodger have confirmed yet again that human desires operate independently of the logic of self-interest – and may even be destructive of it.
His inventory of troubles over the last decade has been staggering: knee and back surgeries; arrests for spousal abuse (no charges were filed) and for failure to pay child support; a federal conviction for tax evasion; serial episodes of substance abuse.
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