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What are dynamic scoring and dynamic analysis?

December 20, 2015 by tpc-admin

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What are dynamic scoring and dynamic analysis?

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Tax, spending, and regulatory policies can affect incomes, employment, and other broad measures of economic activity. Dynamic analysis accounts for those macroeconomic impacts, while dynamic scoring uses dynamic analysis in estimating the budgetary impact of proposed policy changes.

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How should distributional tables be interpreted?

December 20, 2015 by tpc-admin

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How should distributional tables be interpreted?

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Distributional tables provide important and useful information, but keep six key questions in mind to correctly interpret the results.

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How do financing methods affect the distributional analyses of tax cuts?

December 20, 2015 by tpc-admin

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How do financing methods affect the distributional analyses of tax cuts?

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Tax cuts are financed through reductions in current outlays or higher government debt that will eventually have to be repaid. Distributional analyses omit this information as well as the effects of tax increases on current outlays and debt.

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