I’m a day late to the game on this. Jared Bernstein, Dean Baker, and Paul Krugman have all already sounded the alarm as to Robert
If you can pick one thing in a policy argument, pick the baseline scenario against which to compare a series of policies. The CBO’s baseline
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CFRFB writes that the CBO’s August budgetary update (based on current law) is likely too optimistic. The current law projection assumes, among other things, that the tax code
Last year I made some handy charts with CBO’s long-term budget outlook. In various ways they were better than the charts CBO made available. Judging from
The CBOs long term budget outlook is out. They always provide projections based on the continuation of current law (called their Extended Baseline Scenario-solid blue
David Brooks: Democrats seem to believe that most Americans want to preserve the 20th-century welfare state programs. But they are unwilling to ask voters to
In today’s Wonkbook, Ezra Klein writes, Republicans, however, are caught between a rock and a hard place: They don’t like deficits, but they do like
OK, maybe a few other things besides how the CBO scored health reform are being discussed. But it sure doesn’t seems that way. Must we
The following is the text (and figures) of my most recent Kaiser Health News column. This post has been cited in the 20 January 2011
I read the co-chair’s draft of the fiscal (deficit) commission report. I’ve also read what a few others think. I don’t have time to put
Each time CBO came up with a budget projection for health reform, swords came out. On one side were those who said CBO was being
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