I was remiss in not noting cyber as one of the asymmetric threats that North Korea is developing.
There's always the debate whether budgets drive strategy or strategy drives budgets.
Everybody can't be yellow.
I guess I would say to you gentlemen, you're going to be challenged. Senator McCain is going to challenge you, as you know he will, and we a...
And we are not exactly certain how this unprecedented change to our atmosphere and oceans is going to work out entirely, are we?
I do not think we do very well in government anywhere is the prototyping function.
if you tax things that are, quote, ``bad,'' that means you have more revenue which you can then use to reduce the taxes on things that are g...
This has been a very useful discussion. I thank the Chairman and the Ranking Member for holding it.
Did you mean to imply that, or am I reading that wrong?
Well, thank you very much. I am afraid in the same way that concern about the debt seems to vanish in front of the tax benefits for special ...
you do not end up with a net-zero benefit to the economy. You end up with a positive for the economy because of how you have shifted the tax...
the social cost of these environmental externalities--carbon--are very, very large.
I do not believe that there is any rational distinction between student loan debt and other kinds of debt.
So a farmer in Siberia will do better as things get warmer up there. Africa, Asia, places like that, will suffer a great deal. Correct?
We also tax work, income, earnings.
And then similarly, in Figure 6, there is a cost- benefit curve on the difference between an optimal climate policy cost and benefit...
In some of the hypotheticals as scientists look forward, there is a credible view that in the out-years there are really actually potentiall...
Do you agree that there is at least a moral choice being made when we discount harm to future--there is something selfish about discounting ...
