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

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ONE-YEAR SPENDING

$17TRILLION

DRACONIAN CUTS?

Office of Management and Budget; Congressional Budget Office, House Budget Committee

$30TRILLION

$40TRILLION

$47TRILLION

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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

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QUESTIONS?