The Budget Puzzle: Understanding Federal Spending

by Timothy Muris, Allen Schick, John Cogan, et al.

Book Overview

In the United States, the size and composition of the federal budget is arguably the most important single issue of the 1990's, yet most debates and commentaries on the subject are largely uninformed. Virtually no one - whether government official, member of Congress, journalist, or taxpayer - seems to understand how the budget is put together and what it means. This is hardly surprising, since the budget has become extraordinarily complicated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804720916
• ISBN13: 9780804720915
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"