Author: United States. Congressional Budget OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Budget Options
Author: United States. Congressional Budget OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Pig Book
Author: Citizens Against Government WastePublisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 146685314X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
The Budget and Economic Outlook
Author: Spending Reductions
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Expansionary Austerity New International Evidence
Author: Mr.Daniel LeighPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1455294691
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
This paper investigates the short-term effects of fiscal consolidation on economic activity in OECD economies. We examine the historical record, including Budget Speeches and IMFdocuments, to identify changes in fiscal policy motivated by a desire to reduce the budget deficit and not by responding to prospective economic conditions. Using this new dataset, our estimates suggest fiscal consolidation has contractionary effects on private domestic demand and GDP. By contrast, estimates based on conventional measures of the fiscal policy stance used in the literature support the expansionary fiscal contractions hypothesis but appear to be biased toward overstating expansionary effects.
Reducing the Deficit, Spending and Revenue Options
Author: Oregon Blue Book
Author: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Spending Reductions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Economic Impact of Spending Reductions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget deficits
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Austerity
Author: Alberto AlesinaPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208638
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A revealing look at austerity measures that succeed—and those that don't Fiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it can trigger downward growth spirals and become self-defeating. Supporters argue that budget deficits have to be tackled aggressively at all times and at all costs. Bringing needed clarity to one of today's most challenging economic issues, three leading policy experts cut through the political noise to demonstrate that there is not one type of austerity but many. Austerity assesses the relative effectiveness of tax increases and spending cuts at reducing debt, shows that austerity is not necessarily the kiss of death for political careers as is often believed, and charts a sensible approach based on data analysis rather than ideology.