The federal budget, Amanda Hiber, book editor
Type
Label
The federal budget, Amanda Hiber, book editor
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The federal budget
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
441154282
Responsibility statement
Amanda Hiber, book editor
Series statement
Opposing viewpoints series
Table Of Contents
How effective is the current federal budget process? The federal budget process should be reformed / Jim Bates ; A PAYGO statute is an effective budgetary policy / Alice M. Rivlin ; A PAYGO statute is bad budgetary policy / Brian M. Riedl ; The supplemental appropriations process is currently being abused / Veronique de Rugy ; Earmarks are bad budgetary policy / Mike Pence ; Earmarks are effective budgetary policy / Robert Shrum -- How do federal budget deficits affect the nation's economy? Federal budget deficits are harmful to the nation's economy / Concord Coalition ; Budget deficits are not as harmful to the economy as many claim / Alan Reynolds ; The federal budget deficit should not be the central focus of U.S. economic policy / Thomas Palley ; Meeting the nation's needs is more important than balancing the federal budget / Joseph Stiglitz ; The federal budget should both meet the nation's needs and eliminate the deficit / Alice M. Rivlin ; Expanded government spending cannot be maintained / Veronique de Rugy -- How should federal budget revenue be raised? Federal revenue could be boosted by collecting taxes currently owed by citizens / Albert B. Crenshaw ; To bring in enough revenue to afford the American way of life, taxes must be raised / Donna Schaper ; To bring in enough revenue to match spending, taxes should be raised on corporations and the wealthy / Robert L. Borosage and Celinda Lake ; The wealthy already bear too much of the federal tax burden / J.T. Young ; The U.S. needs a new value-added tax to increase budget revenue / Bruce Bartlett ; The U.S. should implement a sin tax to increase budget revenue / Nick Gillespie ; The U.S. should not implement a sin tax / Robert A. Sirico -- How should federal budget money be spent? Federal defense spending should be increased / Valerie Lynn Baldwin ; Federal defense spending should be cut / James Surowiecki ; Too much of the federal budget has gone to the Iraq War / Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier ; Too much of the federal budget is spent on health care / George Krumbhaar ; Too much of the federal budget is spent on entitlements and other social welfare programs / Richard M. Ebeling ; Spending on some entitlement programs is actually decreasing / Aviva Aron-Dine and Robert Greenstein ; Increased spending has not improved education / Tom Bethell