TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

The CRFB says the Obama administration’s 2011 budget is hiding stimulus bill provisions so they don’t have to pay for them:

The Administration is taking two tax provisions from the 2009 stimulus bill — expansions of the child tax credit and the EITC — and claiming them as part of the “current policy” Bush tax cuts. And they are doing something similar for Pell grants: assuming that they will receive sufficient funding to pay out the maximum grant level set in the stimulus bill.
The Administration didn’t inherit these policies, they created them. And worse, still, they created them as explicitly temporary, under a stimulus bill which they claimed was meant only to help bring us out of this recession.
Yet the White House wants to continue these policies, and they don’t want to pay for them. So what do they do? They hide these policies in their baseline, in the hopes that they won’t have to.

Transparent and honest, clearly.