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| ISBN: | 9780511349898
0511349890
0521869331
9780521869331
0521689589
9780521689588
0521689589
9780521689588
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Shaviro, Daniel N. Taxes, spending, and the U.S. government's march toward bankruptcy. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 0521869331 9780521869331
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| Standard no.: | 9780521689588
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