Tricks to Balance Budget: Repeal Obamacare, Keep Its Revenue
Republicans also gloss over details of where they’d cut more than $5 trillion to balance the books.
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Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate say their budget proposals add up. It takes some creative math and logic to make that true.
The plans unveiled this week call for the U.S. government to collect about $2 trillion in taxes in the next decade that Republicans have little or no intention of collecting. Some of that revenue would come straight from taxes to pay for Obamacare -- which they want to repeal.