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The sixteen-trillion-dollar mistake : how the U.S. bungled its national priorities from the New Deal to the present / Bruce S. Jansson.
LIBRA HV95 .J355 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jansson, Bruce S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human services--United States--Finance.
- Human services.
- Government spending policy--United States.
- Government spending policy.
- Finance.
- United States.
- United States--Appropriations and expenditures.
- Expenditures, Public.
- United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Jansson documents how presidents from FDR to Clinton have made ill-advised choices that squandered trillions of dollars. Going beyond charges of corruption or bureaucratic waste, the book reveals innumerable useless projects (military as well as civilian), unnecessary tax concessions, and the use of interest payments to cover deficit spending. Using 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-464) and index.
- ISBN:
- 023111432X
- 0231114338
- OCLC:
- 44802945
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