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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna;37***6
Did those deficit numbers include the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
For the entire eight years of the Bush administration, the wars were funded with requests for special appropriations. Begnning with Obama, they added the costs of the wars as line budget items.
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To the best of my knowledge, those costs are included. I made sure to use the column that was the total of the ON *and* OFF budget receipts and expenditures.
I believe the huge rise in Bush's last term was the stimulus package combined with plummeting tax receipts.