Budget experts tell me the committee has maximum flexibility to play with these baselines.
Lawmakers are drawing baselines in the sand even before the Super Committee is named.
No baselines, no snarling argument over whether this would be a tax cut or a tax increase.
Even better are articles which make it clear that baselines are the tools of the intellectually lazy.
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Everyone trying to sort out the fiscal cliff deal is getting hopelessly tangled in budget baselines.
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Of course, every deficit reduction target is hopelessly tangled up in the many baselines that afflict the budget debate.
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As things stand, the existing comprehensive five-yearly global assessments give governments baselines on which to seat their climate policies.
Good tax articles are the ones that give the numbers for both baselines and let the reader decide which to use.
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But as you listen to the Washington debate, keep your eyes on the prize: not baselines but on where we end up.
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Establish baselines against which to measure your progress and milestones, and continue to analyze that data and seek out areas to improve.
Building on a decade-long census of marine life, these powerful tools provide quantitative baselines of biodiversity at the regional and global level.
Controlling for climate, researchers figured out baselines for various building types (such as residence halls or laboratories) throughout the UC and California State University systems.
There are different baselines too so plenty of room for negotiation.
My TPC colleague Howard Gleckman wrote the other day about the confusion caused by the multiple baselines advocates use to measure the effects of tax proposals.
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Using assessment baselines for Jewish net immigration well below current averages, Faitelson showed that in the years to come, not only will Jews not lose our demographic majority.
Budget experts are well-aware of the problem of multiple baselines.
Environmental baselines to enable an assessment of the degree of contamination of soils and agricultural crops by heavy metals have not been established in the majority of African countries.
And he also wrote about kind of this debate over baselines in terms of what this committee of 12 or super committee is going to use as its baseline.
As I noted yesterday, the plan is almost impossible to analyze given its lack of specifics and, shall we say, flexible use of budget baselines (it uses at least three).
What would they all do without their ever-flexible baselines?
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There is an easier way: Forget the multiple baselines.
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Historical hydrologic records are no longer reliable baselines.
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