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<text id=91TT1657>
<title>
July 29, 1991: American Notes:The Deficit
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 25
American Notes
THE DEFICIT
Just Say Oops!
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<p> What do you call a $100 billion mistake? Inexcusable?
Grotesque? If you are a Washington bureaucrat, you call it a
"technical re-estimate." That was the modest verbiage employed
by the Office of Management and Budget last week when, during
its mid-year review, the agency acknowledged that estimates of
tax revenues for the next five years were $130 billion too high.
The result: even higher budget deficits.
</p>
<p> Two days later, OMB Director Richard Darman explained to
the Senate Budget Committee that the problem was a Treasury
Department accounting blunder. "As far as we understand, we made
a mistake," he said. "There it is, let's face it and move on
down the road."
</p>
<p> Committee chairman Jim Sasser of Tennessee didn't buy
Darman's cavalier position. "If you want to put that number in
grisly perspective," he said, "it constitutes the entire amount
of revenue we raised in the budget summit last year--the
total tax package over which we shed so much blood."
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