May 21, 2015
Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, called the estimation “pretty rock solid” and said the Center on Budget Policies and Priorities used a sensible starting point.
“To be able to do anything differently, you would have to know exactly how many people were going to die in 2016,” Gardner said.
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