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Published Aug 23 2012 by REASON Online

Why the CBO's Good News is Still Bad News

The good news in the latest Congressional

Budget Office report on

the nation's long-term fiscal outlook is still pretty bad news. The

upside is that the CBO has reduced the projected deficit for the

2012 fiscal year. The downside is that it’s still expected...

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