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I have extracted many graphs and a few tables from the first 5 chapters of the report. The page from which the item came is shown above the item. Follow the link below to the report and then go to the page for an explanation of what the graph means and how it fits into the report.
Economic Report Of The President on www.whitehouse.gov web site.
Chapter 5 describes the likely consequences of these projected deficits over time and the importance of restoring fiscal discipline. It also discusses the President’s plan for facing this challenge. A period of severe economic weakness is no time for a large fiscal contraction. Instead, the Nation must tackle the long-run deficit problem through actions that address the underlying sources of the problem over time. The single most important step that can be taken to reduce future deficits is to adopt health care reform that slows the growth rate of costs without compromising the quality of care. In addition, the President’s fiscal 2011 budget includes other significant measures, such as allowing President Bush’s tax cuts for the highest-income earners to expire, reforming international tax rules to discourage tax avoidance and encourage investment in the United States, and imposing a three-year freeze in nonsecurity discretionary spending; alongside a proposal for a bipartisan commission process to address the long-run gap between revenues and expenditures.
3.268 million the estimated impact of employment relative to what otherwise would have happened according to the Council of Economic Advisers.
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The actions the Administration has taken and is proposing would reduce deficits by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years and by even more after that. These actions are significantly bolder steps toward deficit reduction than any taken in decades, and they will face serious opposition by those with vested interests. Even with these actions, however, the primary budget is forecast to remain in deficit in 2015. And the longer-run fiscal problem facing the country still centers on the growth of health care costs and the aging of the population. Thus, barring a substantial and sustained quickening of economic growth above its usual trend rate, further steps will be needed to get the deficit down to the target in the medium and long run.
Regardless of the form they take, these additional steps to reduce the deficit will involve sacrifices by a broad range of groups and significant compromise. Thus, a bipartisan effort will be essential. That is why the President is issuing an executive order creating a bipartisan fiscal commission to report back with a package of measures for additional deficit reduction. The charge to the commission is to propose both medium-term actions to close the gap between noninterest expenditures and tax revenues and additional steps to address the longer-term issues associated with rising health care costs, the aging of the population, and the persistent deficit. The commission’s recommendations will form an important foundation on which to base policy decisions moving forward.
The Administration understands that addressing the long-run fiscal challenge will be a long and difficult task requiring commitment and shared sacrifice. But the President also believes that Americans deserve for and expect policymakers to deal with the ever-rising deficit. The changes eventually enacted will be central to the long-run preservation of both America’s financial strength and the standards of living of ordinary Americans.