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Cato's assumptions: Tort Reform and reading back through the links

As a researcher I love how the internet works, and how fast factoids become facts. Case in point: Cato's latest diatribe at Delmarva Dealings : Tort Reform Will Save $54 Billion Why won’t the Democrats even discuss it? Obviously they won’t discuss tort reform because trial lawyers rank up there with hedge fund socialists, Hollywood, and Big Labor as primary funders of the coming “People’s Revolution”. That said, when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) admits that tort reform would save Americans $54 BILLION over the next decade, it’s something that should be discussed … IF Democrats were interested in health care REFORM. Unfortunately, the party of Obama is not interested in REFORM. They are interested in a TAKEOVER. Clicking through the only link in the story, we reach this WaPo story that, curiously does not contain a link to the CBO report it cites: Congressional budget analysts said Friday that lawmakers could save as much as $54 billion over the next decade by imposing ...