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More powerful and affluent today than ever, the United States has promising opportunities to influence the course of history. Yet these prospects are shadowed by significant perils and burdens.

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Reform of the United States tax system has become a central political issue. Assessing Tax Reform is a concise, non-technical book to help general readers and students understand the tax reform issues Congress is now debating. Henry Aaron and Harvey Galper lay out the major alternative proposals and analyse principles of taxation that can be used for judging them.

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Deciding when and how to retire are among the most important decisions most people make. Can they be depended on to plan with foresight and make sound decisions According to standard economic analysis the answer is a qualified ""yes.

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Examines the effects of rising social security costs and of measures adopted to deal with them, and discusses possible ways of coping with the shortfall of available money for the aging American population.

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Over the past four decades, the share of income devoted to health care nearly tripled. If policy is unchanged, this trend is likely to continue. Should Americans decide to rein in the growth of health care spending, they will be forced to consider whether to ration care for the well-insured, a prospect that is odious and unthinkable to many.

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Many medical authorities predict that average life expectancy could well exceed 100 years by mid century and rise even higher soon thereafter. This astonishing prospect, brought on by the revolution in molecular biology and information technology, confronts policymakers and public health officials with a host of new questions.

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With tax reform high on the political agenda, this book brings together studies of leading tax economists and lawyers to assess the various reform proposals and examine the effects of tax reform in several distinct areas. Together, these studies and comments on them present a balanced evaluation of professional opinion on the issues that will be critical in the tax reform debate.

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Sheds light on social security issues by examining evidence from economic studies about how the system affects saving, labour supply, and income distribution. It shows that these studies provide little evidence to support or refute assertions that social security has reduced saving, but they do indicate that it has contributed to the trend toward early retirement.

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The Great Society and the War on Poverty programs of the 1960s were undergirded by a broad consensus about the problems the US faced and how they could be solved. But by the early 70s both political and scholarly tides had shifted. In this book, Henry Aaron describes both the initial consensus and its subsequent decline.

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Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare in America but not on how to do it. In Reforming Medicare, Henry J. Aaron and Jeanne M. Lambrew deftly guide readers through this complex debate. They identify and analyse the three leading approaches to reform.

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In the US he goals of controlling spiraling health care costs and extending insurance coverage or even maintaining current insurance coverage seem to be in conflict. But progress can be made on both goals if they are tacked together. Henry Aaron evaluates these critical issues and explores how adequate care can be provided without fueling inflation.

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With governments facing large deficits and slowly growing revenues, and public distrust in the efficiency of government and elected officials at all-time highs, the authors of this volume ask, What can government do for you This book brings together a prominent group of experts to answer this critical question.

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Continues the highly acclaimed and influential series of books that examine domestic and foreign policy choices confronting the United States. The contributors explain and evaluate options for the United States in the 1990s, consider whether the federal government's current pollicies are consistent with long-term objectives, and explain what action could best achieve those goals.

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If the subject of influence in Washington interests you, this series of books deserves your respectful attention...it has changed the ways in which American politicians think about the budget.

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The well-documented gap between men's and women's earnings has aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth. Henry J. Aaron and Cameran M. Lougy review the conditions that have sparked the debate and unravel the implications of comparable worth for employers in public and private sectors, for labour union agendas and employer-employee negotiations.

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People pay taxes for two reasons. On the positive side, most people recognize, even if grudgingly, that payment of tax is a duty of citizenship. On the negative side, they know that the law requires payment, that evasion is a crime, and that willful failure to pay taxes is punishable by fines or imprisonment.

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Academic medical centers provide cutting edge acute care, train tomorrow's physicians, and carry out research that will expand the range of treatable and curable illnesses.

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Brings together some of the US's most knowledgeable tax experts and analysts to address the question: How should lawmakers grapple with the problems that arise from the side-by-side existence of principles of consumption taxation with principles of income taxation

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Few people realize that one of the nation's largest health programs runs through the tax system. Reformers of all stripes propose to modify current tax rules as part of larger programs to increase coverage and control costs.

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It is not uncommon to hear that poor school performance, welfare dependancy, youth unemployment, and criminal activity result more from shortcomings in the personal makeup of individuals than from societal forces beyond their control.

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Deciding when and how to retire are among the most important decisions most people make. Can they be depended on to plan with foresight and make sound decisions According to standard economic analysis the answer is a qualified ""yes.