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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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Additional Authors
  • Johnson, Jean
  • Johnson, Jean, 1949-
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
  • Budget deficits > United States
  • Public welfare > United States > Finance
  • Budget > United States
  • United States > Appropriations and expenditures
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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
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Harvard Library