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We need an effective, independent arm of government to evaluate whether we are getting our money's worth. That does not seem to be what the CBO or OMB do, and we need to know whether the money being spent to achieve good-sounding aim is actually achieving those good-sounding aims.

Submitted by jdmorris in Taxes & Budget Jan. 5, 2015, 9:07 a.m.

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Y. Sam

The CBO and OMB and GAO have traditionally done that. They are routinely ignored and are frequently strong-armed and/or otherwise co-opted by the foxes in the hen house. So the point I think would be how do we bring the results of these studies to bear on governance, since the politicians simply ignore or attack and reject the findings as being just another example of government being bad for us.

Jan. 5, 2015, 9:43 a.m.

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