Doing Nothing Balances the Budget

No really, if you put everything on auto-pilot, and keep Congress from doing the "Doc-Fixes", and allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, you get this:

The top picture, doing nothing, gets you a surplus around 2013, the bottom one, cutting taxes, gets you deficits as far as the eye can see.

Republicans care about deficits like I care about William Shatner's penis size.