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You do realize that the CBO is mandated to use static scoring on all bills, which essentially means that behaviour changes can not be considered when calculating revenue estimates from bills right?
To demonstrate how unrealistic this is, consider that the United States uses around 140 Billion Gallons of gasoline every year and if someone came up with a bill that proposed adding a $10/gallon tax to gasoline the CBO would estimate an additional $1.4 Trillion in revenue to the government because they would be forced to assume that at $13/gallon people would use as much gasoline as they currently are. In contrast, if the CBO was allowed to use dynamic scoring they would (likely) find that tax revenues would fall because people would aggressively cut back on gasoline usage to limit energy costs, cut back on any discretionary expenses, companies would go bankrupt, and lots of people would lose their jobs all leading to substantially lower taxes being paid.
