Greg Manikw has an interesting piece in the New York Times discussing the importance of dynamic scoring of budget and legislative proposals. The point in favour of this is that we know that tax and ...

Greg Ip has a good piece in the WSJ on the subject of the dynamic scoring of budget proposals. The opposition to this idea tends to come from the idea that it will all get very political. And I have ...

In his testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Kevin Hassett examines the potential benefits of ...

Now that the Lee-Rubio tax plan has been introduced in Congress, we can anticipate a renewed discussion about how cuts in tax rates boost government revenue and help balance the budget. Republican ...

A much-needed corrective by the WSJ’s Greg Ip to the hysteria over the new House rule that requires the CBO dynamically score major legislation. Statically assuming that, say, big tax cuts have no ...

New Jersey Democrats Should Stop Adding Fire to ICE Protests On Voting for Terrible People Worse Than the Devil You Know Audio By Carbonatix There’s a fair amount of bunkum in accounting, but there is ...

One of the major unanswered questions regarding President Trump's tax-reform proposal is: How much will it cost? In theory the government has a way to answer that, but surprisingly there's no standard ...

President Trump's 2018 budget proposal details many federal programs he'd like to cut. But his budget figures don't jive with his policies because of something called "dynamic scoring." For example, ...

How should Congress’s economists open a can of worms? Keith Hall, the new director of the Congressional Budget Office, is likely to be grappling with that odd question very soon. Let’s start with some ...

Dynamic scoring is great in theory. Can it work in practice? That’s the question facing lawmakers as they get around to hammering out a budget this year. Under a new rule in the House of ...