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Our Opinion: Hey, big spenders

Congressional Budget Office analysts estimate the national debt, now at 75 percent of the gross national product, will grow to 86 percent in a decade.

Rising debt hampers economic growth, the analysts added.

And they pointed out critical programs including Social Security, Medicare and the Highway Trust Fund are headed toward insolvency.

A key part of the report noted government spending is growing faster than revenue to fund it is increasing.

For liberals, including Hillary Clinton, the answer to that is higher taxes – including many hidden ones affecting the middle class.

But the CBO did not analyze one aspect of the issue: how the hundreds of billions of dollars a year in new taxes to support bigger government would affect the lives of all Americans.

Perhaps that is an analysis best left to those of us who, at some point, need to decide whether to demand Washington rein in its spending habits – or let it continue on its merry way.

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