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Spectrum, which would be a pretty smart way to talk about tax reform, but what heather was saying is on the spending side of the budget, it cuts the spending programs and domestic discretionary by block granting medicaid and part of food stamps in a way that the lower income spectrum would bear a very heavy burden of this. on the other hand, what this budget does do is focuses on the need to get our medium and longer term debt under control and that s something a lot of policy makers are running away from. heather mentioned the deficit improvements. the problem is, they have been for this year and last year and next year, in the short term, we shouldn t be focused on the deficit and i say that as somebody who s very, very concerned about fiscal policy, but the real risk isn t the immediate deficits where we ve seen them coming down, it s over the next ten and 20 years, and this budget does do more than any other budgets to accomplish a reduction in the deficit, but what i d also add, d ....

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