We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money

Having laid out the design flaws in the current federal fiscal machine, Kleinbard proposes correctives for how the nation should decide the amount to spend on infrastructure and education (human capital), for the design of its social insurance schemes (Social Security, Medicare, other health care insurance and services, and disaster relief), and for the progressive (i.e., graduated) income tax rate schedule. [...]the broad consensus among economists is that efficient, nondistorting tax rules would tax all types of income-properly measured-at the same rate, although perhaps using progressive rates on higher incomes.