Analysis of the President's Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal Year 2006

The CBO has analyzed the Pres.'s budget request for FY2006 using its own economic assumptions & estimating techniques, with contributions from the Joint Comm. on Taxation (JCT). This report presents CBO's analysis of that budget. Contents: CBO's Estimates of the Pres.'s Budget for 2006; The Economy Under the Pres.'s Budget & Under CBO's Baseline Policy Assumption; Changes in CBO's Projections of Medicare Spending for 2005 to 2015; The Admin.'s Proposal for Individual Social Security Accounts; The Potential Economic Effects of Selected Tax Proposals in the Pres.'s 2006 Budget; The Models Used to Analyze the Macroeconomic Effects of the Pres.'s Budget; & Contributors to the Revenue & Spending Projections. Tables.Holtz-Eakin, Douglas is the author of 'Analysis of the President's Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal Year 2006', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756747886 and ISBN 0756747880.