Where does the money go?
Subtitle: your guided tour to the federal budget crisis
By: Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson.
Contributors: Johnson, Jean.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780061241871
Subjects: Budget deficits -- United States; Public welfare -- United States -- Finance; Budget -- United States; United States -- Appropriations and expenditures
Description: A layperson's guide to how government financial decisions affect one's retirement, health-care, mortgage, and other concerns explains how decision makers are influencing tax allocations and the federal deficit.
Table of contents: title: The six points you need to know to understand the federal budget debate; title: So what's the worst that could happen?; title: A little clarification is in order; title: Money comes . . . . (or the tax tour); title: And money goes; title: Social security and medicare - and why closing the deficit isn't enough; title: If you think social security is bad, wait 'til you meet medicare; title: Do we really have to throw granny out on the street?; title: Waste not, want not?; title: The liberals and the conservatives (or, so you'd think . . . . ); title: Politics as usual; title: Has K Street become Washington's main street?; title: 2010 - the high noon of budget politics; title: Tackling the long-term budget problem one bite at a time; title: The OK if you're so smart worksheet; title: The "where does the money go" voter protection kit; title: The last word: six realities we need to accept to solve the budget; title: Problem; title: Appendix: Places to go, people to meet.