Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2005 Meeting the Long-Run Challenge

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Overview

1. Dimensions of the Budget Problem (Rudolph G. Penner and Alice M. Rivlin)

2. The Size and Role of the Government (Alice M. Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill)

3. Social Security (Peter R. Orszag and John B. Shoven)

4. Health (Henry J. Aaron and Jack Meyer)

5. Tax Policy Solutions (William G. Gale and C. Eugene Steuerle)

6. The Politics of Deficit Reduction (Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins)

Contributors

Index