Forgive us our debts the intergenerational dangers of fiscal irresponsibility /

Main Author: Yarrow, Andrew L.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • What are deficits and debt, and why are they growing?
  • Balancing and unbalancing our budget : a history of government debt in the United States
  • How deficits are funded
  • How deficits and debt affect America and you
  • The potential dangers of doing nothing, or fiddling while our economy goes up in smoke
  • The politics of deficits and debt
  • What can and should be done to reduce America's deficits and debt?
  • Concluding thoughts : a nation that balances its books and a government that invests in America's future.