Taxes, spending, and the U.S. government's march toward bankruptcy /
What's in a word? Plenty, when it's a word such as 'taxes', 'spending', and 'deficits' that dominates Washington political debate despite lacking coherent economic content. The United States is moving towards a possible catastrophic fiscal collapse. The countr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fiscal language and the fiscal crisis
- Taxes, spending, and the size of government
- Fun and games with budget deficits
- What are we talking about when we talk about budget deficits?
- Long-term measures in lieu of the budget deficit
- Fiscal gap politics
- Benign fictions? : describing social security and medicare
- Tax expenditures
- Welfare, cash grants, and marginal rates
- Some modest proposals.