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CBO Report: Capital Budgeting, May 2008

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  • “Proponents of capital budgeting assert that the current budgetary treatment of capital investment creates a bias against capital spending and that additional spending would benefit the economy by boosting productivity. They note that capital budgeting could better match budgetary costs with benefit flows and eliminate some of the spikes in programs’ budgets from new investments. The existence and extent of any such bias, however, depends on how differently policymakers would behave with a capital budget instead of the existing budgetary treatment of capital investments. Furthermore, although evidence suggests that additional capital spending could
    have larger economic benefits than costs, the economic benefits of increasing capital spending by the federal government would partly depend on how well the additional funds were targeted to high-value projects and on the extent to which they would displace spending that would otherwise be undertaken by the private sector or other levels of government.”
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