WASHINGTON, DC: Amid all the new government programs and tax cuts that have been proposed by the various presidential candidates -- or will be as the campaign unfolds -- there lurks a nasty statistic that suggests how difficult they will be to achieve.

The statistic is 0.5 percent.

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