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- From: mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz)
- Subject: Re: Deficit
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:33:38 GMT
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- Ted Frank (thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu) wrote:
- : In article <mlbruce.727596260@husc.harvard.edu> mlbruce@husc11.harvard.edu (Matthew Bruce) writes:
- : >cstone@husc8.harvard.edu (christopher stone) writes:
- : >>Two comments:
- : >
- : >>1) I believe that the deficit *as a percentage of GNP* is not much
- : >>larger than it was in earlier decades.
- : >
- : >As percent of GNP, from what I've read it stayed pretty level under
- : >Reagan, but under Bush (esp. after the 1990 package) it skyrocketed as
- : >percent of GNP. Still, as this is fact not opinion in question, we'd just
- : >have to "look it up."
- :
- : Deficit as percent of GNP doesn't tell us enough -- I wouldn't mind
- : a high percentage, just so long as the economy is growing faster than
- : the debt. I'm going to use debt/GNP rather than deficit/GNP.
- :
- : As percent of GNP, debt (rather than deficit) was steadily declining
- : from Truman to Nixon, levelled under Nixon, stayed level until Reagan,
- : and has been skyrocketing ever since.
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- Why not consider debt to income ratio? Income being government revenues...
- Why is a factor of up to 8x unacceptable?
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- : ted frank | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu
- : standard disclaimers | void where prohibited
- : the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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