the FEMA mapping of this has been, frankly, outright defective.
Because you do recognize that if you count the growth here in the budget and then you count it again in your tax proposa...
no amendment opportunities yet.
I look forward to working with you on that.
I think we are turning the Senate into something very unfortunate if zero amendments are going to be allowed.
We are concerned about the debt having gone from $10 trillion to $20 trillion.
So your testimony here is that you are not assuming any growth from tax revenues as a result of increased economic activ...
I hope that we can look forward to a day when we can have a sober and sensible discussion about that here in Congress.
I think we were talking more about this graph, which I think is yours, that shows the adjusted forecast Federal spending...
So even Kentucky sees it coming. They just see it in a different light.
And a tax expenditure of $1 has the same effect on the debt and the deficit as direct spending of a $1.