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America's Priorities - How the U.S. Government Raises and Spends $3,000,000,000,000 (Trillion) Per Year (Hardcover)
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America's Priorities - How the U.S. Government Raises and Spends $3,000,000,000,000 (Trillion) Per Year (Hardcover)
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"Charles Konigsberg has done a great service for American
taxpayers-- giving all of us a clear, direct and meaningful guide
to the $3 trillion of our money that goes to the government to fund
programs that shape our daily lives (for better or worse.) For one
used to wading through gobbledygook or impenetrable jargon, the
plainspoken, straightforward actual English in this book is
especially refreshing. Every American concerned about federal
taxing and spending--Democrat, Republican or other, budget analyst
or average citizen--should have this book." Norman Ornstein,
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute "This is an
extremely useful book--both for those seeking a comprehensible
introduction to the complexities of the federal budget and to
practitioners needing a quick refresher course." Alice M. Rivlin,
former Director, Office of Management and Budget, and Congressional
Budget Office "Charles Konigsberg, who advised my good friend Pat
Moynihan on fiscal policy, explains in clear and concise language
why the United States is on a dangerous fiscal path, with
entitlement programs, particularly the health care entitlements,
growing at an unsustainable rate due to rapidly rising health care
costs." Bob Kerrey, former Senator from Nebraska and current
President of the New School
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America's Priorities explains in clear, concise, nonpartisan
language how the U.S. government raises and spends $3 trillion per
year. The book provides plain English explanations of the budget
process, major Federal spending programs, Federal taxes, and the
reasons for the major swing from deficits in the 1980s to surpluses
in the late 1990s and back to rapidly increasing debt in the
current decade. A broad spectrum of readers will find the book
useful: journalists, political and financial commentators, the
government and financial sectors, the academic community, and
voters looking for a nonpartisan explanation of how our elected
officials are prioritizing public resources. Charles S. Konigsberg
has over two decades of bipartisan experience in the White House
and U.S. Senate, having served as General Counsel at the Senate
Finance Committee, Minority Chief Counsel at the Senate Rules
Committee, Staff Attorney at the Senate Budget Committee, and 4
years as an Assistant Director at the Office of Management and
Budget.
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