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Where does the money go? : your guided tour to the federal budget crisis / Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson.
- Title
- Where does the money go? : your guided tour to the federal budget crisis / Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson.
- Author
- Bittle, Scott.
- Publication
- New York : Collins, c2008.
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- Description
- xiv, 320 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- A layperson's guide to how government financial decisions affect one's retirement, health-care, mortgage, and other concerns explains how decision makers are influencing tax allocations and the federal deficit.
- Subject
- Processing Action (note)
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- Contents
- The six points you need to know to understand the federal budget crisis -- So what's the worst that could happen? -- A little clarification is in order -- The tax tour (or, Money comes-- ) -- And money goes -- Social security and medicare-and why closing the deficit isn't enough -- If you think social security is bad, wait til you meet medicare -- Glib answers to a tough problem -- Do we have to throw granny out on the street? -- Waste not, want not -- The liberals and the conservatives -- Politics, as usual -- Has K Street become Washington's Main Street? -- 2010-the high noon of budget politics -- Tackling the long-term budget problem one bite at a time -- OK, if you're so smart -- The "where does the money go" voter protection kit -- The last word: six realities we need to accept to solve this problem -- Appendix: Places to go, people to meet.
- ISBN
- 9780061241871
- 0061241873
- LCCN
- ^^2007026403
- OCLC
- 152580732
- SCSB-11531423
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library