The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake: How the U.S. Bungled Its National Priorities from the New Deal to the Present Tapa dura - 2001
de Bruce Jansson
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Every nation must decide how much to tax its private wealth and how to spend the resulting revenues.
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CHOICES ABOUT NATIONAL priorities are arguably the most important made by the federal government, profoundly affecting the well-being of citizens. Bruce S. Jansson documents how presidents, from FDR to Clinton, have made questionable choices that wasted trillions of dollars. Going beyond charges of corruption or bureaucratic waste, the book is an eye-opening expose that reveals innumerable useless projects (military as well as civilian), unnecessary tax concessions, and the use of interest payments to cover deficit spending, among other costly mistakes. Using U.S. Office of Management and Budget projections through 2004, Jansson shows how the madness continues -- and how an informed electorate can put an end to it.
This book is the first analysis of American national priorities to link social policy, military policy, tax policy, and national politics in a far-reaching critique of the way the United States expends its national resources. By chronicling the failed priorities of eleven presidencies over a seventy-three year period (1931-2004), Jansson meticulously examines how each administration struggled to prioritize its share of the $56 trillion spent over that time. However, presidents only propose budgets, while Congress actually crafts budget and tax legislation. Jansson's research analyzes many of the problems created by this usually contentious relationship between the president and Congress: exorbitant military expenditures, corporate welfare, tax breaks for affluent Americans, interest payments on excessive debt, and pork-barrel spending. In identifying $16 trillion the United States wasted during the past seven decades, The Sixteen -Trillion-Dollar Mistake points the way forgreater citizen surveillance of the federal budget and affords average citizens a stronger voice in determining national priorities.
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- Título The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake: How the U.S. Bungled Its National Priorities from the New Deal to the Present
- Autor Bruce Jansson
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 496
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Columbia University Press, New York
- Fecha de publicación October 15, 2001
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780231114325 / 023111432X
- Peso 1.72 libras (0.78 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.25 x 6.2 x 1.35 pulgadas (23.50 x 15.75 x 3.43 cm)
- Época de 22 a UP años
- Cursos 17 - UP
- Nivel de lectura 1710
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Appropriations and, United States - Politics and government -
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 00060323
- Dewey Decimal Code 336
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Booklist, 03/01/2001, Page 1211
- Choice, 07/01/2001, Page 2038
- Publishers Weekly, 02/26/2001, Page 68
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