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The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake: How the U.S. Bungled Its National Priorities from the New Deal to the Present Hardcover - 2001
by Bruce Jansson
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This book is the first analysis of American national priorities to link social policy, military policy, tax policy, and national politics in a far-reaching critique of the way the United States expends its national resources. By chronicling the failed priorities of eleven presidencies over a seventy-three year period (1931-2004), Jansson meticulously examines how each administration struggled to prioritize its share of the $56 trillion spent over that time. However, presidents only propose budgets, while Congress actually crafts budget and tax legislation. Jansson's research analyzes many of the problems created by this usually contentious relationship between the president and Congress: exorbitant military expenditures, corporate welfare, tax breaks for affluent Americans, interest payments on excessive debt, and pork-barrel spending. In identifying $16 trillion the United States wasted during the past seven decades, The Sixteen -Trillion-Dollar Mistake points the way forgreater citizen surveillance of the federal budget and affords average citizens a stronger voice in determining national priorities.
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- Title The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake: How the U.S. Bungled Its National Priorities from the New Deal to the Present
- Author Bruce Jansson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
- Date October 15, 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780231114325 / 023111432X
- Weight 1.72 lbs (0.78 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.2 x 1.35 in (23.50 x 15.75 x 3.43 cm)
- Ages 22 to UP years
- Grade levels 17 - UP
- Reading level 1710
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Appropriations and, United States - Politics and government -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00060323
- Dewey Decimal Code 336
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- Booklist, 03/01/2001, Page 1211
- Choice, 07/01/2001, Page 2038
- Publishers Weekly, 02/26/2001, Page 68
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