Suppose someone – say, the president of United States – proposed the following: We are drowning in debt.

More than $14 trillion right now. I’ve got a great idea for deficit reduction. It will yield a savings of $230 billion over the next 10 years: We increase spending by $540 billion while we increase taxes by $770 billion

He’d be laughed out of town. And yet, this is precisely what the Democrats are claiming as a virtue of Obamacare.

That was deliberately designed so any projection for this decade would cover only six years of expenditures – while that same 10-year projection would capture 10 years of revenue. With 10 years of money inflow vs. six years of outflow, the result is a positive – i.e., deficit-reducing – number. Surprise.

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