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        No GOP Candidate Is Closing the Revenue Gap—David Frum

        The Coming Debt Crisis

        Ryan Prior

        Updated Jul. 13, 2017 11:42AM ET / Published Feb. 23, 2012 4:30PM ET 

        Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

        Today the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released its scorecard of the Republican presidential candidates' long-term budget priorities. It turns out none of the candidates have budgets that can solve the long-term budget shortfall.

        At the panel discussion about the report hosted by the New America Foundation, former Congressman Vic Fazio had troubling thoughts about the responsibility of the GOP's candidates' proposals:

        "We have a historically low rate of taxation at 15% of GDP. Spending is at 23% of GDP. We have to move to close that gap. All of these proposals would widen it."

        To be clear, Romney's plan seeks to reduce spending to 20% of GDP, and a growing economy could significantly expand tax revenues now slumping during the downturn. But the Governor's proposed tax cuts would cancel out some of these projected gains. The GOP's Norquistism remains the greatest sticking point to garnering good scores from impartial, non-partisan arbiters like this.

        Committee member Alice Rivlin, former head of OMB and CBO, was especially gloomy:

        "They all fail on the need to get more revenue."

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