On many essential attributes of a plan. It would be extremely challenging too used to document as a document to hold the iris, the Treasury Department, or anybody else accountable for missteps. The few things it almost entirely lax are quantitative targets to measure against, backup data to analyze, and various key operational details including, for example, who at the irs or Treasury Department is ultimately responsible for making decisions on any particular issue. This does not give any detail on how the irs will implement secretary yellens 400,000 dollar pledge. And details really matter here. It also does not estimate what any of the 42 initiatives or 190 odd key projects are expected to cost or clearly answer the basic question of which initiative or key projects can be fully implemented with the 80 billion dollars in funding. What the document quietly admits is astonishing. Despite contrary rhetoric, the irate did not give the irs enough funding to fully realize the plans divisio
On many essential attributes of a plan. It would be extremely challenging too used to document as a document to hold the iris, the Treasury Department, or anybody else accountable for missteps. The few things it almost entirely lax are quantitative targets to measure against, backup data to analyze, and various key operational details including, for example, who at the irs or Treasury Department is ultimately responsible for making decisions on any particular issue. This does not give any detail on how the irs will implement secretary yellens 400,000 dollar pledge. And details really matter here. It also does not estimate what any of the 42 initiatives or 190 odd key projects are expected to cost or clearly answer the basic question of which initiative or key projects can be fully implemented with the 80 billion dollars in funding. What the document quietly admits is astonishing. Despite contrary rhetoric, the irate did not give the irs enough funding to fully realize the plans divisio
of widespread unrest. taiwan s president tsai ing wen has pledged to bolster the island s combat power and defences in a major speech on taiwan s national day. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. there is one question which haunts the chancellor, haunts any chancellor of any political party stopping it is, what will the iss say? because the verdict of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, any budget or what we these days have to call fiscal event can be devastating for a politician. that verdict is treated like the word of god, not least by broadcasters like the bbc who have experts from the iss on our programmes all the time. our guest is the director of the institute for fiscal studies, the ifs, paul johnston, welcome to political thinking. if the ifs is the word of god, that makes you got. how does that feel? very stran . e! got. how does that feel? very strange! the got. how does that
of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, in any budget, or what these days we have to call fiscal event, can be devastating for a politician. that verdict is treated like the word of god, not least by broadcasters like the bbc who have experts from the ifs on our programmes all the time. my guest this week is the director of the ifs, pauljohnson. welcome to the programme. if the ifs is the word of god, that makes you god. how does that feel? very strange. he chuckles all we are, as it were, we are a research institute who happen to work on fiscal things, which means public spending and tax, and when the government or the opposition make big announcements on tax and spending, we analyse it and we analyse it off the back of decades of experience we ve got. with the numbers, with understanding of what this stuff means. so we are able to say, do these add up? will it achieve what the chancellor says it will achieve? and what are the risks? when martin le