[PugetSoundSoldier]

Interesting... Cutting TARP results in an INCREASE in the budget. How does that work?

Healthcare fraud and abuse control is listed twice with two different amounts.

Same with two operation of recreational resources different values, and other fields.

And there’s no credit for reducing regulation, stimulating total GDP.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Interesting... Cutting TARP results in an INCREASE in the budget. How does that work?

The money was spent in prior years and the money is being paid back now.

TARP was the Bush Administration thing. It was designed to be deficit neutral, and could possibly bring in more money than it originally cost. Whether it was a good idea in the first place is another debate.

TARP shouldn't be confused with Obama's Porkulus bill, which is pretty much just massive fraud.

[tjbandrowsky]

What they did with TARP is that last year they paid it all out. This year the TARP is a credit as it represents what the banks have paid back.

I’ll look at the healthcare fraud and abuse control - its possible that there are separate programs for it - or separate line items for on and off budget expenses. I’m using the basis is a CSV supplied by the CBO.

As far as the impact of reducing regulation, its outside of the scope of this story, but, I’m actually going to look at the effects of that and also policies regarding taxation on things like energy in a more complicated simulation that is coming. In that, you’ll see various demographics and get to play some policy what if. It turns out really that raising taxes (or regulating) on one thing has spillover effects in that some people just eat the higher price and cut elsewhere, particularly, loan repayments.