A quick note regarding my policy proposals--unlike many politicians, I actually have the numbers to back up my claims. Take my forthcoming (hopefully within the next week or two) income tax reform proposal. I've got data from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Census Bureau, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
For this proposal, I've accumulated approximately 2000 pages worth of data in order to present a real proposal, backed up by real numbers. I've been working on this thing since early this summer, and it's been a real slog going through the literal reams of data.
For all my proposals, I will back them up with the data, so you can rest assured that I'm not just pulling figures out of my behind. For those of you who are like me and are a masochist when it comes to looking at pages and pages of government numbers in a tiny font, I'll provide links to the applicable documents.
Just thought I'd go ahead and throw that out there in the open beforehand, since it is the norm for politicians to proclaim wonderful sounding platitudes without an ounce of data to back them up.
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