Fiscal containment : who gains? Who loses? / Anthony H. Pascal, Mark David Menchik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascal, Anthony H.

Contributor:

Rand Corporation.

Menchik, Mark D.

Series:

R (Rand Corporation).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taxation--United States.

Taxation.

Government spending policy--United States.

Government spending policy.

Fiscal policy--United States.

Fiscal policy.

United States--Appropriations and expenditures.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 11 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [1979].

Summary:

This report outlines the recent course of events in government spending, taxation, and employment at all three levels, and briefly reviews the fiscal limitation movement and its accomplishment. The report also includes the findings from a case study of the recent fiscal history of Los Angeles, which may help explain taxpayer discontent. Prevailing sentiment, as expressed through the American political system, appears to favor containment, if not contraction, in government. Along the road to this objective, some groups are likely to suffer as others gain. The report concludes with as assessment of the social costs and political effects that containment may engender. It is offered in the hope that, armed with foreknowledge, the nation can avoid causing needless harm through unreflective zeal.

Notes:

"R-2494/1-FF/RC."

"Prepared under a grant from the Ford Foundation."

"Adapted from R-2494-FF/RC, Fiscal containment of local and state government ... September 1979."

Related Work:

Rand Corporation. Fiscal containment of local and State government.