Couple these tax increases and spending cuts with the provisions of “Obamacare,” the US health-care reform championed by President Barack Obama, and, as of January 1, 2013, America’s &#160;long-run structural budget deficit disappears. The restored tax rates will, for the foreseeable future, be sufficient to support the US defense establishment, the growing US social-insurance system, and a moderate – albeit inadequate and suboptimal – amount of other “discretionary” federal spending.
增税减支措施将于2013年1月1日生效，辅之以奥巴马总统倡导的“奥巴马医改”即可消除美国的长期结构性财政赤字。恢复后的税率在可以预见的未来足以支撑美国的国防建设、不断发展的社保系统和虽不理想但却适度稳健的其他“自由裁量”的联邦开支。美国国债占国内生产总值的比例将有望从目前的75%下降到2035年的50%。此外截止2015年，美国将开始实现基本预算盈余——在扣除现有债务利息支出后实现财政收支平衡。