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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that if we continue on this path unchecked, the mandatory parts of the ... increases gobble up a growing percentage of GDP simply because the escalators ...

Those constraints mean cuts to the rest of the budget would have to be brutal. Three scenarios for balancing the budget in 10 years without raising taxes. Chart ... by 49 percent; other mandatory ...

Consider the chart ... percentage point decline in revenues — mainly lower corporate income and other taxes. The spending was focused mainly on health care, but also Social Security and other ...

"We now have a situation where about 80 percent of individuals who ... Still, a large reason for the growth in mandatory spending is that the United States has been engaged in fighting wars ...