Assumption Quote by Thomas Sowell

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are…

— Anonymous

“We produce thirty-year projections of social security deficits and oil prices without realizing that we cannot even predict these for next summer—our cumulative prediction…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Congress, in its typical knee-jerk reaction, had slashed their budget considerably in recent years, culminating”

— Bobby Akart

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

— Doug Elmendorf

Projections are put together by people who have an interest in a particular outcome, have a subconscious bias, and its apparent precision makes it…

— Charlie Munger

Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.

— Ralph Goodale

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are…

— Christina Romer

Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.

— Dan Rostenkowski

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

— Wendy Long

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing…

— E. J. Dionne

Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at…

— David Cay Johnston

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

— Dee Dee Myers