| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Yet tax expenditures increase the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars a year, more than the total cost of all non-defense programs other than Social Security and Medicare.A critical feature of the proposal recently unveiled by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairmen of the president???s bipartisan fiscal commission, is to reduce tax expenditures rather than raise tax rates.
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