We can try and reinstitute a first-year deficit test, and we can try and reinstitute a second 5 years deficit test. We can adopt a scoring rule that prohibits shifts such as the corporate estimated tax shift from being used to satisfy pay-go. But I am not confident they will accept such changes. They seem determined to keep up what the Wall Street Journal called ``a con game from the very start.''
Discussing potential changes to fiscal policy and budget rules.
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If all the nuclear power plants were closed in this country, it's the equivalent of adding 115 million cars to the road.
It makes no sense whatsoever, and it's apparently--certainly makes no sense for the same people to be urgently arguing to deal with climate change and then either quiet or urgently opposed to nuclear power.
Without the 99 nuclear power plants that operate in 30 States, carbon emissions from the U.S. electric sector would be approximately 25 percent higher.
Meeting state and national carbon reduction goals will be compromised without existing nuclear power plants.