Restoring fiscal sanity, 2005 : meeting the long-run challenge /

Restoring fiscal sanity, 2005 : meeting the long-run challenge /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2005.
Description:	xii, 146 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Budget -- United States. Government spending policy -- United States. Budget deficits -- United States. Fiscal policy -- United States. Budget. Budget deficits. Fiscal policy. Government spending policy. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5632745

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Other authors / contributors:	Rivlin, Alice M. Sawhill, Isabel V.
ISBN:	0815774915 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Policy experts address how to bring federal spending and revenue in line over the next decade and into balance over the longer term, focusing on reforms in the tax system, Social Security, and Medicare"--Provided by publisher.
Standard no.:	9780815774914

Table of Contents:

1. Dimensions of the budget problem / Rudolph G. Penner and Alice M. Rivlin
2. The size and role of government / Alice M. Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill
3. Social Security / Peter R. Orszag and John B. Shoven
4. Health / Henry J. Aaron and Jack Meyer
5. Tax policy solutions / William G. Gale and C. Eugene Steuerle
6. The politics of deficit reduction / Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins.