We don't have a revenue problem, ...

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... we have a spending problem.

This GOP mantra, repeated most recently by Mitch (The Turtle) McConnell is subjected to "The Fact Checker." Guess what? The Turtle is wrong.

"(A)s demonstrated above, revenues have consistently failed to meet the projections that prompted the original tax-cut frenzy in Congress....The nation has a revenue problem and a spending problem — or else there would not be a deficit."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...g.html?hpid=z1