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May 05, 2008
Despite what you may have heard, the CBO has not analyzed the gas tax holiday
While looking for something else, I came across this from the Congressional Budget Office...
Various media reports are incorrectly attributing to CBO a figure (that the average driver would save about $30 this summer) associated with a gas tax holiday. CBO has not published such a figure and the citations to CBO are inaccurate.
This misattribution raises a larger point. CBO is a nonpartisan organization, and we are not in the business of scoring or evaluating campaign proposals. In some cases, CBO may have previously estimated or evaluated a proposal similar to one subsequently proposed in a campaign and those estimates generally are available on our website.
The bottom line: If you read something suggesting that we have issued numbers or an analysis about a campaign proposal, you should be skeptical — and also let us know.
Posted by William Polley at May 5, 2008 12:26 AM
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