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economy because we don t have those tax increases in our budget? and so we consulted experts from columbia, from harvard, from all around as to what is a good rule of thumb as to what kind of growth would be achieved if we had fundamental tax reform, if we had deficit and debt reduction, which takes pressure off interest rates, and so we ran three scenarios. we called them alternative growth scenario, of different versions of between .5 to 1% additional growth a year. what would the budget look like if that happened? it s more or less a thought exercise. and what that shows you is you would dramatically balance the budget a lot faster than what the conventional cbo baseline says. but our budget is measured using the cbo baseline, which, as i said, assumes slow growth because of tax increases, and then it assumes slower growth in the out years because of an explosion of debt. well, we pay the debt off, we don t have a tax increases, but nevertheless, we use the measurement tha