Facts, Obama, Taxes and the GOP's Delusion

Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website. More

Michael Linden presents this clever, smart graph that shows spending, taxes, and the deficit all lower today, as a share of GDP, than in Obama's first year:

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