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GOP budget alternative wasn't much of an alternative.(Inside Track)(Grand Old Party)(Brief article)
On April 1, April Fool's Day, prior to House and Senate passage of similar versions of the Democrat-backed budget plan two days later, Republicans unveiled their alternative budget which they called, "Fiscal Responsibility: Republicans on the Budget,"
But how "responsible" was the GOP alternative? Well, it called for $500 billion-plus annual deficits through 2019. Every annual deficit in the Republican budget would be larger than any deficit in the entire history of the nation before 2008. The only thing that would give these huge deficits the appearance of being "conservative" is that the deficits in the Obama budget would be even larger.
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