Where does the money go?
Subtitle: your guided tour to the federal budget crisis
By: Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson
Contributors: Johnson, Jean
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780062023476
Subjects: Budget deficits; Appropriations and expenditures; Public welfare; Finance; Budget
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.
Notes: "Revised edition updated with even more debt!"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: The six points you need to know to understand the federal budget crisis; title: So what's the worst that could happen?; title: A little clarification is in order; title: The tax tour (or money comes...); title: ...And money goes; title: Social security and medicare; title: and why closing the deficit isn't enough; title: If you think social security is bad, wait 'til you meet medicare; title: Glib answers to a tough problem; title: Do we have to throw granny out on the street?; title: Waste not, want not?; title: The liberals and the conservatives; title: Politics, as usual; title: The taxman cometh; title: Tackling the long-term problem one bite at a time; title: OK, if you're so smart...; title: The "where does the money go" voter protection kit; title: The last word: six realities we need to accept to solve this problem; title: Appendix: Places to go, people to meet.