they never forecast properly though
because they never factor in the significant decrease of tax revenues that always occur because of their destructive economic consequences of their policies
so assuming that the expected revenues they use in their forecasting is always over-estimated, greatly
Doesn’t matter. They will “fix” it.
They are never right. The giverment does not earn any money ans so all spending is deficit spending. The giverment does not have any money of its own. All they have is money they take from 40% of us. The other 60% get to paid to ride by us too because they don’t produce anything either.
The CBO numbers understate by orders of magnitude the true costs. The Dems set the parameters of the estimate thereby cooking the books. The WSJ has an article citing the Wharton School’s estimate, which is $4.6 trillion unfunded.
One of the first things a republican congress should do is put an end to the games that the CBO has to play by. The affordable care act was “scored” according to a formula where four years of taxes would be collected before the program would start outlays, so it was compelled to say there were ten years of taxes collected, but only six years of expenses incurred. That should have been illegal, but it was not only legal, it was deemed as appropriate by truly awful people who think the people who elect then are idiots... and since many of them keep getting reelected, maybe they have a point.
What kind of vote does this bill need to pass?
A simple majority in the Senate that can be accomplished with Harris providing the final vote and a simple majority in the House?
We all knew the House and Senate numbers were cooked because that is what the left does...lie and then lie some more. All part of the Democrat risky scheme to fundamentally change America into a third world ****hole and clone of communist China, and they are following it to the letter. I read an article over at TheFederalist about that, “LEAKED: Teachers Reveal How They ‘Stalk’ Kids, Sideline Parents To Pull Middle Schoolers Into LGBT Groups”, so give that a look. Communists don’t do anything by accident and they are not stupid, they are insidious and play a great long game. And nobody sane every believed you can spend money over and above your income and balance to zero.
Instead of giving one, succinct number, the CBO is taking it piece by piece. That was set up purposely by Democrats in hopes of muddying the waters.
A number of programs are in the bill as lasting only several years, but everyone knows they won’t actually ever go away. So the cost is scored as three or four years, not ten.
They will vote to pass no matter what the CBO is asked to say.