Saturday, February 27, 2010

Ryan: Game Over -- As In $2.3T Over

clipped from www.house.gov

The Majority Leader said the bill scores as reducing deficit by $131 billion over the next 10 years.4 



First a little bit about CBO: I work with them every single day; very good people; great professionals. They do their jobs well. But their job is to score what is placed in front of them. And what has been placed in front of them is a bill that is fill of gimmicks and smoke and mirrors.


Now what do I mean when I say that?

First off, the bill has ten years of tax increases and ten years of Medicare cuts to pay for six years of spending. The true ten year cost when subsidies kick-in? $2.3 trillion.5