The Deficit and the Public Interest |
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations |
Preface The Era of the Budget |
Acknowledgments |
One Madisonian Budgeting, or Why the Process is so Complicated |
Two Democrats in a Budget Trap |
Three "The Worst of All Worlds" |
Four Preparing for the Reagan Revolution |
Five The President's Program |
Six Gramm-Latta 1 |
Seven Party Responsibility Comes to Congress |
Eight Starving the Public Sector: The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 |
Nine Return of the Deficit |
Ten A Government Divided |
Eleven Fake Budgets and a Real Tax Hike |
• | A Stillborn Budget |
• | The President Retreats |
• | Musical Chairs |
• | The Gang of 17 |
• | Passing a Budget: The Senate |
• | Passing a Budget: The House |
• | The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) |
Twelve Economics as Moral Theory: Volckernomics, Reaganomics, and the Balanced Budget Amendment |
Thirteen Guerrilla Warfare: Spending Politics, 1982 |
Fourteen A Triumph of Governance: Social Security |
Fifteen Causes and Consequences of the Deficit |
Sixteen The Budget Process Collapses |
Seventeen Budgeting Without Rules |
Eighteen The Deficit in Public and Elite Opinion |
Nineteen Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, or the Institutionalization of Stalemate |
Twenty Counterpoint: The Improbable Triumph of Tax Reform |
Twenty-One Budgeting with Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, or "Help Me Make It Through the Night" |
Twenty-Two The Deficit and the Public Interest |
Twenty-Three Nobody's Darling, but No One's Disaster Either: A Moderate Proposal on the Deficit |
Postscript: The Budget Truce of 1990 |
Notes |
Index |