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Overview
Felix Salmon and Barry Lam dissect budget deficit projections, revealing political strategies and philosophical dilemmas behind fiscal messaging.
Takeaways
- •Barry Lam connects budget deficit debates to philosophical concepts like baselines and induction, showing assumptions shape financial narratives and policy implications.
- •The Congressional Budget Office uses 'current law' as its baseline, but political actors, especially Republicans, prefer 'current tax rates' to reframe deficits and policy impacts.
- •Nelson Goodman and David Hume’s philosophical problems illustrate how the same facts produce radically different accounts, paralleling the shifting claims in budget debates.
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