Reply #4: Jon Stewart had a chart on one of his recent shows

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That showed the deficit.

It showed what would happen if the nation takes up the notion of 1 trillion dollars of cuts to programs we need (such as infrastructure, schools, libraries, etc)

And then he had a chart which showed what would happen if we got rid of the Bush Tax Cut extensions.

Basically we end up with the same situation in terms of the deficit, except one causes huge harms to our society as a whole, and also to regular people (which, let's face it, is most of us) and the other shows no real harm - just the rich having to forego a lil tiny bit of their glorious luxurious lifestyle.