The Congressional Budget Office estimated that making the tax cut permanent would add $627 billion to its cost just in 2011 and 2012.
New Line estimated that making the Tolkien trilogy piece by piece could be nearly twice as costly as doing it in one go.
The credit currently costs the government some $7 billion in tax revenue annually, and analysts estimated that making it permanent would cost $100 billion to $150 billion over 10 years.
Strain's colleague Andrew Biggs estimates that making up Social Security's actuarial deficit would cost about $182 billion a year beginning now.
A diesel-powered car in Europe already costs $1,750-2,4001,750-2,400an equivalent gasoline model, and PSA estimates that making a diesel hybrid could double that premium.
Mr. Mathews estimates that making senior bondholders take an appropriate loss on their bank holdings of 18 billion euros would save the country about 15 billion euros.
Experts estimate that making date labels uniform could save up to 398,000 tons of food every year.
Economist Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com estimates that making the Bush tax cuts permanent will provide only 31 cents of stimulus for every $1 dollar spent.
Mrs. Lerner estimated that she makes about a dozen calls every season.
(Bloomberg estimated that he made two hundred million dollars from the deal).
