Money & budgets
dynamic scoring
Estimating a bill's budget effect while accounting for how it might change the size of the economy, not just individual behavior.
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Conventional scores already include behavioral responses, such as people buying less of a taxed good. Dynamic scoring goes further, modeling effects on total output and therefore on revenue. Because the results depend heavily on model assumptions, the technique is politically contested, and Congress requires it only for certain major legislation.
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