. "Appendix F: Constructing Multiple Paths to Sustainability." Choosing the Nation's Fiscal Future. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010.
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Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future
TABLE F-3 Projected Federal Deficits, Debt, and Interest Payments Under the Committee’s Four Scenarios, as Percentages of GDP
nonbaseline trajectories are used. The difference is that the changes start 5 or 10 years later, that is, in 2017 or 2022. The nonbaseline revenue paths are similarly delayed 5 or 10 years. There are two ways these elements can be combined; for example, for 5-year delays (also see Chapter 9):
the revenue path necessary to attain the debt-to-GDP target for a 5-year delay of each spending trajectory, and
to stay within a given delayed revenue trajectory and attain the debt-to-GDP target, combinations of delayed spending paths.
