The CBO Wants to Discuss Healthcare and the Deficit? (from run75411) Someone struck a nerve, “The Lady Doth Protest Too Much: CBO Director Asks for A Chat . . .”….

…one, to huge deficits the rest of the time (with much of the impact of the deficit hidden by the purportedly temporary nature of the provisions and the annual passage…

…Accounts Table 3.2. GDP comes also comes from the BEA.) Figure 1 As you can see, the deficit did indeed turn into a surplus when Gingrich was in office. However,…

…deficit down, even though it may mean it will take longer for the economy to recover. 56% Now the question does suggest that stimulus increases budget deficits — this is…

…to discuss the fundamental principles of an efficient tax reform. 1. Taxes and Deficits. Let me begin by noting that the realized budget deficit is an economic outcome, not a…

There will be plenty of reactions to the draft release of the fiscal draft proposal, but one caught my eye as I just came home. Reader HW at TPM has…

We’re used to that line by now. Ross Perot—one of the more prominent people who got rich due to government contracts—used it, Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman are using it…

…stimulus. Most people who oppose further stimulus and call themselves deficit hawks are hypocrites. Sincere deficit hawks might find my argument unconvincing. Maybe there is one sincere deficit hawk who…

…can drop its financial deficit without incurring behemoth debt burden growth (in the case of the Eurozone, the term “burden” actually applies since Greece, nor any one economy, can print…

…proposals would add $4.8 trillion to the baseline deficits over the 2010–2019 period. CBO projects that if those proposals were enacted, the deficit would total $1.8 trillion (13.1 percent of…