I would argue, for example, that the GI bill is one of the most cost-effective programs in history, but the results did not come in for some years.
I think we shortchange this whole process by saying, well, we are going to reduce the size of the Federal Government.
I think he has outlined the problem magnificently and dismally. It is not a happy picture.
It seems to me that that would be a reform that would clarify the accounting.
Have you done any analysis of the economic effect of people being freed from their employer based health insurance and, therefore, able to b...
As I read it, though, what you really found was it was the labor supply that you were analyzing, not people losing their jobs but people cho...
I think that is an important point, because there was a lot of talk at the time that CBO says ACA will cost 2 million jobs, and that is real...
My only concern as a policymaker is that we not be seduced by the rosy projections that never manifest themselves.
I was amazed when I got here that somehow, when you get inside the Beltway, the law of net present value does not apply.
I think we are undercutting our own national interests by not being at the table.
We are spending all of our time on really one-fourth of the Federal budget.