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Your numbers generally match pages 6, 8 and 10 of the CBO report, but not entirely. You're reporting the 1.7% increase in the "Other" category as 1.2%. You've apparently decided to deduct the 0.5% increase in "Offsetting revenues" from the "Other" column in order for your numbers to "jive" with the overall 6.5% increase shown on page 6? I believe the increasing offsets are likely payments into SS and Medicare and would be more appropriately be deducted from those columns rather than pulling them out of "Other" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.170.7.72 (talk) 05:44, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
- This is definitely a useful chart and it took me a while to find one like it anywhere. I don't know how true the comment above is, but would like to see whatever is accurate, as accurate as one can be with govt statistics. ha ha Carolmooredc (talk) 15:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
