In the past month, analysts, pundits, bloggers, journalists, economists, politicians and everyone in between has had a chance to voice their opinions on the CBO's latest budget outlook. For wonks, these updates are like scripture - but of course, as all other mere mortals, even policy wonks fall prey to confirmation bias. That means that we often choose to ignore the parts of these reports that make our preferred policies seem less appealing or we try to rationalize them away.
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