4 thoughts on “How To Save $1.4T”

  1. Don’t expect Democrats to suddenly have a change of heart now that the tricks used to manipulate the CBO have worn off.

  2. I’m getting access denied to the link. $1.4t (gosh as I hit the T I realize I’ve never not written out a trillion before, anyway…) that’s like real money, isn’t it? The fight is on. It worries me that by the elections of 2012 not enough people will stand for ‘the country that was.’

  3. Looks like the article might be pulled, I can’t find it on the main page. While Googling for it, I ran across a web page that talks about the unusual prevalence of the amount, $1.4 trillion in public policy discussion. I guess that author hadn’t heard of Benford’s law.

    I did find another original discussion of the CBO report. Turns out what happened is that because it is two years later, the CBO has to count 8 years of spending increases to 10 years of Medicare reductions rather than 6 years of spending increase as in 2009. So this particular deficit is going to look considerably worse in two years, when the full term of spending increases are finally on CBO’s ten year radar.

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