{"id":471201,"date":"2010-03-25T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33968"},"modified":"2010-03-25T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T16:11:08","slug":"time-for-an-independent-budget-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/471201","title":{"rendered":"Time for an independent budget office?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tim Shoemaker<\/p>\n

Thomas Sowell has an excellent opinion piece in the Washington Examiner<\/a> this morning calling for an “off-budget office.”<\/p>\n

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Under the headline “Costly Bill Seen as Saving Money,” the San Francisco Chronicle last week began a front-page story with these words: “Many people find it hard to understand how the health care legislation heading for a decisive vote Sunday can cost $940 billion and cut the horrendous federal deficit at the same time.”<\/p>\n

It’s not hard to understand at all. It is a lie.<\/em> [emphasis added]<\/p>\n

What makes this particular lie pass muster with many people, who might otherwise use their common sense, is that the Congressional Budget Office vouched for the consistency of the budget numbers that say you can add millions of people to a government-run system and yet save money.<\/p>\n

The Congressional Budget Office does honest work. But it can only use the numbers that Congress supplies– and Congress does dishonest work. It is not the CBO’s job to give their opinion as to whether any of the marvelous things that Congress says it will do in the future are either likely or possible.<\/p>\n

The Congressional Budget Office is like a computer: Garbage in, garbage out. The numbers in the health care bill are especially smelly garbage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sowell argues an independent agency would be able would be able to cut through the smoke screens, set up by the official government budgets, to see the real financial liabilities whether they are on the official budget or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Shoemaker Thomas Sowell has an excellent opinion piece in the Washington Examiner this morning calling for an “off-budget office.” Under the headline “Costly Bill Seen as Saving Money,” the San Francisco Chronicle last week began a front-page story with these words: “Many people find it hard to understand how the health care legislation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}