ABSTRACT
This collection of articles traces the evolution over the 1980s of budget policy and tax reform by an architect of the Bradley tax reform bill. The articles present a chronological analysis of tax changes and the heated controversy over budget policy and the deficit. It concludes with an analysis of what the future holds. The author, currently staff director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, has the perspective of a fiscal expert with many years on the Washington scene.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |15 pages
Intruduction
chapter |13 pages
The Making of Tax and Fiscal Policy: An Overview
part |58 pages
The Policy Environment of the 1980s
chapter |38 pages
Tax Policy in Historical Perspective
chapter |18 pages
What's in Store for the Income Tax?
part |59 pages
Economic and Political Issues
chapter |16 pages
Why Bradley-Gephardt?
chapter |12 pages
Semantics of the Flat Rate Tax and Tax Reform
chapter |15 pages
Tax Reform at the Crossroads
chapter |14 pages
Tax Reform: Up from the Ashes
part |65 pages
Tax Reform: Legislative Process and Outcome
chapter |12 pages
Tax Reform: What Does It Mean?
chapter |33 pages
How Tax Reform Came About
chapter |18 pages
Tax Policy Issues Raised by Tax Reform
part |19 pages
Persistent Deficits and the Implications For The 1990s