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Home >  Books >  Balancing Act
Balancing Act
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Debt, Deficits, and Taxes
Edited by Norman J. Ornstein, John H. Makin, David Zlowe
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Balancing Act
Dimensions: 9.5'' x 6.5''
133 pages
AEI Press  (Washington)
Publication Date: April 1991
Hardcover
ISBN: 0844737402

Policymakers and observers address taxation, spending, the budget deficit, and policy formation and implementation.

John H. Makin and Norman J. Ornstein are resident scholars at AEI. David Zlowe is conducting research at AEI on fiscal policy and budgeting.



Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction


Debt and Deficits in the 1990s
Tax Policy in the 1990s
Federal Spending Issues of the 1990s
Alternative Views of the Future
The Decade of the Nineties--America's Golden Age?

Notes
Index
Figures

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