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We Are Better Than This - How Government Should Spend Our Money (Paperback)
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We Are Better Than This - How Government Should Spend Our Money (Paperback)
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We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in
the United States. Author Edward D. Kleinbard explains how the
public's preoccupation with tax policy alone has obscured any
understanding of government's ability to complement the private
sector through investment and insurance programs that enhance the
general welfare and prosperity of our society at large. He argues
that when we choose how government should spend and tax, we open a
window into our "fiscal soul," because those choices are the means
by which we express the values we cherish and the regard in which
we hold our fellow citizens. Though these values are being
diminished by short-sighted decisions to starve government,
strategic government spending can directly make citizens happier,
healthier, and even wealthier. Expertly combining the latest
economic research with his insider knowledge of the budget process
into a simple yet compelling narrative, he unmasks the tax
mythologies and false arguments that too often dominate
contemporary discourse about budget policies. Large quantities of
comparative data are succinctly distilled to situate the United
States among its peer countries, so that readers can judge for
themselves whether contemporary budget choices really reflect our
aspirational fiscal soul. Kleinbard's presentation takes a
multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on economics, finance, law,
political science and moral philosophy. He uniquely weaves economic
research and moral philosophy together by emphasizing our welfare,
not just our national income, and by contrasting the actual beliefs
of Adam Smith, a great moral philosopher, with the cartoon version
of the man presented by proponents of the most extreme forms of
private market triumphalism.
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