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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (539907)12/31/2009 4:31:21 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1574854
 
Perhaps, but the issues I raised would largely remain even if the Republicans "owned" the CBO. The CBO has to "play by" pre-defined rules, and members of congress know how to structure bills to manipulate those rules to get good scores whatever the actual fiscal results.

And even if they where not skilled at it, they can, and do, submit multiple copies for evaluation, until they get a good CBO score, and then that becomes "the bill", that shows how it "saves money", even though 1 - Raising taxes to pay for a program isn't saving money, and 2 - The actual consequences of the program will be to increase the deficit, not just spending.
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