Choosing the Nation's Fiscal Future. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (361 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- FrontMatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- Summary -- 1 The Long-Term Challenge -- 2 Framing the Choices -- 3 Fiscal Prudence -- 4 Choices for a Sustainable Budget -- 5 Options for Medicare and Medicaid -- 6 Options for Social Security -- 7 Options for Defense and Other Domestic Spending -- 8 Revenue Options -- 9 Multiple Paths to Sustainability -- 10 Fiscal Stewardship: A Budget Process for the Long Term -- 11 What Should Be Done Now? -- References -- Appendix A: Fiscal Sustainability -- Appendix B: Baseline Assumptions and Estimates -- Appendix C: Social Security Options -- Appendix D: Defense and Other Domestic Spending: Program Options -- Appendix E: Revenue Options and Their Implications -- Appendix F: Constructing Multiple Paths to Sustainability -- Appendix G: International Experience with Long-Term Budgeting -- Appendix H: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780309147248 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Budget-United States.<br/>Government spending policy-United States.<br/>Fiscal policy-United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HJ2051 .C466 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>336.73