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 in...

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Government spending
Income distribution
Legal arguments
Medicare
Social security
Subsidies
Tax incentives
Tax rates
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