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The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake

By Bruce S. Jansson

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
023111432X, 9780231114325, 9780231505260
Open Library ID
OL9876532M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1583145 bytes)
Pages
496\507
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Choices about budget priorities are arguably the most important made by the federal government, profoundly affecting the well-being of citizens. Bruce Jansson documents how presidents from FDR to Clinton have made ill-advised choices that wasted trillions of dollars. Going beyond charges of corruption or bureaucratic waste, the book is an eye-opening expos? revealing 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 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.

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