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 country may not get there, but the risk is unmistakable and growing. The 'fiscal language'of taxes, spending, and deficits has played a huge and under-appreciated role in the decisions that have pushed the nation in this dangerous direction. This book proposes a better fiscal language for U.S. budget policy, rooted in economic fundamentals such as wealth distribution and resource allocation in lieu of 'taxes' and 'spending, ' and in the use of multiple measures (such as the fiscal gap and generational accounting) to replace the U.S.'s misguided reliance on annual budge deficits.

Year

2006

Language

English

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Editions

4

Pages

262

ISBN

9780521869331

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