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Episode 2: The CBO Can't Count

Words & Numbers

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Introduction

The Congressional Budget Office is required to assume that Congress will make no major changes in policy taxation spending going out into the future. Over time, if you take a look at the data, they over predict revenues by 25%. On average, they're saying that revenue is going to be 25% more than they actually are. The CBO is 250% behind the curve predicting debt.

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