💰 Financial Record

This document consists of two slides from a financial presentation by KPCB (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), likely authored by Mary Meeker, analyzing the US economy under the metaphor 'USA Inc.' The slides discuss the difficulty of covering expenses through tax hikes alone, arguing that raising income tax rates to break-even levels would be 'draconian' and harm GDP. It proposes that economic growth is the key solution, presenting CBO data showing that small increases in GDP growth (0.1% to 2%) could significantly reduce the federal budget deficit by hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars between 2011 and 2020.