William G Gale

Fiscal Therapy

Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future

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Produktbeschreibung

Fiscal Therapy takes a critical look at how and why the U.S. has run up its debt so high in the last four decades, what other countries have done to dig themselves out of this level of red ink, and what needs to be done now if the U.S. is to avoid bankruptcy in the 2050s and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780190645410
• ISBN-10: 0190645415
• Artikelnr.: 47863847

Autorenporträt

William G. Gale is Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy, Director, Retirement Security Project, and Co-Director, Urban Institute-Brookings Tax Policy Center, Brookings Institution

Inhaltsangabe

* INTRODUCTION
* 1. Introduction
* THE PROBLEM
* 2. Meet the federal budget - basics, vocabulary, etc.
* 3. The Budget Outlook -- where we are headed
* 4. Economic Effects of Public Debt - why where we are headed is a
problem
* 5. What would a solution look like? The right target, the fiscal gap,
timing and uncertainty
* ON THE ROAD TO A SOLUTION
* 6. History - How did we get here? What do we learn from that?
* 7. Growth - Effect of tax and spending policy changes on growth
* 8. Fairness - How income distribution and economic mobility issues
affect fiscal choices
* 9. Politics - Political factors and public opinion as they influence
fiscal policy
* SOLUTIONS
* 10. Health care
* 11. Social security and retirement
* 12. Defense and national security
* 13. The safety net and government investment
* 14. Income tax reform
* 15. Corporate/business tax reform
* 16. Consumption tax/value-added tax
* 17. Energy taxes/Carbon tax
* 18. Budget process
* CONCLUSION
* 19. Conclusion