Two thousand words

Keith Hennessey has turned the CBO analysis of the House Democrats’ horrifying health care bill into a horrifying chart:

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You can see the huge tax increase outstripped by the even huger spending increase. In the long run, the outlook is even more horrifying:

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These are the official CBO numbers. The true story is worse still. The marginal tax rates being contemplated (around 50%) are well up the Laffer curve, so the new taxes won’t bring in nearly as much money as predicted by the CBO’s model.

(Via Hot Air.)

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