Posts tagged “CBO”
A Post That Passeth All Understanding
Ezra Klein of The Washington Post had a post yesterday about CBO Director Doug Elmendorf‘s testimony before the Senate Budget Committee: CBO Director Doug Elmendorf testified before the Senate Budget Committee today and dropped something of a bombshell. Extending the Bush tax cuts, he said, will “probably reduce income relative to what would otherwise occur [...]
Who Says There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question?
(1) There’s stupid, and then there’s stupid. Mike Crapo, Republican senator from Idaho, has now left no doubt whatsoever how crushingly stupid he is. He wrote to the Congressional Budget Office with a question that must have perplexed him no end. Passing certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act was estimated to reduce the deficit [...]