The Congressional Budget Office has risen to prominence amidst the ongoing healthcare debate, with each bill coming forward creating a papal election-like period of anticipation while the CBO "scores" it for revenue/deficit impact. And while imperfect, CBO is one of the things that Congress can point to having created for which it should be justifiably proud.
Peter Suderman at Reason Magazine gives us a good look at CBO here.
True but the CBO are just numbers crunchers. Bad info in bad info out.
ReplyDelete