Mr. Speaker, we just completed a very useful two hour meeting with three fiscal forecasters. It was an interesting and instructive exercise. One said that we would have revenues going from about $196 billion up to $214 billion. Another said that they would go from $198 billion up to $210 billion, another $12 billion. Another said that they would go from $195 billion up to $209 billion, somewhere around $13 billion.
One can appreciate, given the range of information and the difficulties that are necessary in projecting forward those numbers of years, that honest people will disagree as to what the forecast should be.