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Obama Budget to Include Tax Hikes, Cuts to Medicare, Social Security

Less tax hikes than usual will be proposed

Reason Staff | 4.5.2013 7:16 AM

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President Obama will release a budget next week that proposes significant cuts to Medicare and Social Security and fewer tax hikes than in the past, a conciliatory approach that he hopes will convince Republicans to sign onto a grand bargain that would curb government borrowing and replace deep spending cuts that took effect March 1.

When he unveils the budget on Wednesday, Obama will break with the tradition of providing a sweeping vision of his ideal spending priorities, untethered from political realities. Instead, the document will incorporate the compromise offer Obama made to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) last December in the discussions over the so-called "fiscal cliff" – which included $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction through spending cuts and tax increases.

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