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The National Debt Conclusion: Establishing the Debt Repayment Plan

by Charles W. Steadman. 164 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Charles W. Steadman

Publisher:

   Praeger Publishers

Place of Publication:

  Westport, CT  

Publication Year:

  1993
Subjects:   Debts, Public--United States, United States--Economic Policy
Table of contents
Contents
Figures and Tables xi
Chapter 1 National Debt: The Greater Force and Dictator of Policy 1
Note 4
Chapter 2 Why Has the National Debt Grown? 5
Surrendering Control over the Power to Tax 6
Perverse Rules of the Fiscal Policy Game 8
Lord Keynes and Other Academic Scribblers 11
Commentary 11
Notes 12
Chapter 3 Sacrifice of Opportunity 13
Federal Borrowing as a Drain on National Saving 14
Borrowing for What? 16
Debt as a Barrier to Capital Formation 18
Declining Productivity and Earnings 20
A Downward Spiral: Lower Earnings, Lower Savings, Ad Infinitum 23
Living on Foreign Savings 25
Commentary 26
Notes 27
Chapter 4 Managing the National Debt 29
Refunding Policy 32
The Growth of Interest Payments 35
Alternatives 37
Commentary 41
Notes 42
Chapter 5 National Debt and the Average American 45
Somebody's Using Your Credit Card 46
Running Harder, Falling Further Behind 48
Retirement Insecurity 52
Commentary 54
Notes 55
Chapter 6 Demise of the Social Order 57
Generational Transfer of the Debt Burden 58
A Broader Concept of the Burden on Future Generations 61
Mechanisms for Transferring the Burden to Future Generations 63
Commentary 64
Notes 65
Chapter 7 Profligate Spending and Revolving Error. Carter to Reagan to Bush 67
The Carter Legacy 69
Reagan's Challenge: An Economic Dunkirk 77
Federal Budgets and the Debt under Bush 86
Commentary 89
Notes 91
Chapter 8 Past Experience in Debt Repayment: Ethical Commitment of the Founders 93
The Revolutionary War's Cost 94
The Debt and Its Repayment 95
Commentary 99
Notes 100
Chapter 9 Debt Repayment after the Civil War, World War I, and World War II 103
National Debt Repayment Experience after the Civil War 103
Debt Payment Experience of World War I and World War II 111
World War II 113
Commentary 116
Notes 116
Chapter 10 The Plan for Debt Retirement 119
Overview of the Debt Retirement Plan 119
Architecture for a Ten-Year Plan 126
Commentary 128
Notes 130
Chapter 11 Epilogue: Present Choices and Future Expectations 135
Paradise Lost 135
Paradise Regained: Choices of Self-Interest 140
Note 145
Appendix. Forecasting Methodology 147
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 147
Federal Debt 148
Federal Deficit 148
Interest Payments on the Debt 148
Real Disposable Personal Income per Capita 149
Note 149
Bibliography 151
Index 155
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