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For Deficit Panel, Failure Cuts Two Ways – NYTimes.com

.By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM and ANNIE LOWREY

The latest Congressional failure to agree on a plan for balancing the government’s books could yield a surprising result: a sharp reduction in annual federal deficits, larger than anything contemplated by the special panel that reached its fruitless finale on Monday. But the absence of an agreement also threatens to significantly slow growth in an already ailing economy by raising taxes on almost everyone while reducing government spending on almost everything.

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