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Axelrod, Alan, 1952- author.
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Debts, Public -- United States.
Fiscal policy -- United States.
Government spending policy -- United States.
United States -- Economic conditions.
United States -- Politics and government.
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Full faith and credi...
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Full faith and credit [electronic resource] : the national debt, taxes, spending, and the bankrupting of America / Alan Axelrod ; featuring editorial cartoons by Michael Ramirez.
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Axelrod, Alan, 1952- author.
New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, [2016]
Subjects
Debts, Public -- United States.
Fiscal policy -- United States.
Government spending policy -- United States.
United States -- Economic conditions.
United States -- Politics and government.
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9780789260680 (electronic bk.)
0789260689 (electronic bk.)
9780789212832
0789212838
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1 online resource (496 pages ): color illustrations.
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First edition.
Contents:
How we got here : the unintended consequences of elected government. George Washington to Theodore Roosevelt ; Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Delano Roosevelt ; Harry S. Truman to Ronald Reagan ; George H.W. Bush to Barack Obama -- The tyranny of good intentions : spending out of control. In government we trust ; The unintended consequences of unelected government ; Our climate of moral hazard from New Deal to raw deal -- Spending too much for the common defense : trapped in the puzzle palace. Ike's first draft ; The Pentagon and Pork Chop Hill -- Spending too much and the civilian pork barrel : one man's waste is another man's dinner. From the bottom of the barrel : grinding the political pork sausage ;Let them eat pork : how Congress buys votes -- What taxes cost us : tax plans and policy choices. Abandon all hope? ; When subsidies and preferences pass for taxes ; Solutions : asking the right questions. How much longer do we have to perch on this painful tipping point? ; Stay curious, get skeptical : resources, references, and policy choices.
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What is the national debt? Who loses from it? Who profits from it? Why is it a greater threat to America than international terrorism? In direct, non-partisan language, this book follows the money and finds the answers.--Provided by Amazon.com.
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