We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States. Author Edward D. Kleinbard explains how the public's preoccupation with tax policy alone has obscured any understanding of government's ability to complement the private sector through investment and insurance programs that enhance the general welfare and prosperity of our society at large. He argues that when we choose how government should spend and tax, we open a window into our "fiscal soul," because those choices are the means by which we express the values we cherish and the regard in which we hold our fellow citizens. Though these values are being diminished by short-sighted decisions to starve government, strategic government spending can directly make citizens happier, healthier, and even wealthier. Expertly combining the latest economic research with his insider knowledge of the budget process into a simple yet compelling narrative, he unmasks the tax mythologies and false arguments that too often dominate contemporary discourse about budget policies. Large quantities of comparative data are succinctly distilled to situate the United States among its peer countries, so that readers can judge for themselves whether contemporary budget choices really reflect our aspirational fiscal soul. Kleinbard's presentation takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on economics, finance, law, political science and moral philosophy. He uniquely weaves economic research and moral philosophy together by emphasizing our welfare, not just our national income, and by contrasting the actual beliefs of Adam Smith, a great moral philosopher, with the cartoon version of the man presented by proponents of the most extreme forms of private market triumphalism.

We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money

Business & Money

Kleinbard, Edward D.

Economics

Oxford University Press

America's economy is unfair; its politics unjust; its society unbalanced. Many people believe this across ideological divides. They differ on the reasons why and, not surprisingly, what should be done about it. Is there any room for common ground?Edward D. Kleinbard says yes. He argues that underlying all these crises are instances of systematic bad luck that deprive Americans of genuine equality of opportunity. We cannot control whether we are born to rich or poor parents, yet differences in wealth have radical implications for health,lifetime incomes, mobility within and across generations, and our sense of satisfaction with our lives and our country. Once we recognize this, we can agree on ways to diminish the importance of luck and increase the role of opportunity.What's Luck Got to Do With It? How Smarter Government Can Rescue the American Dream combines insights from economics, philosophy, religion, and social psychology to argue that the government's proper role is addressing the unfairness and injustice of brute luck. Kleinbard shows that well designedpublic insurance against existential bad luck can mitigate today's inequality gap by sharing the costs across the entire risk pool, which is to say, all of us. For example, through comprehensive public investments in better education - in human capital - we offer millions of young people figurativeinsurance against the bad luck of not being born into an affluent, highly-educated household. The benefits paid by insurance result in a more inclusive economy, greater national income, a broader sharing of growth, and greater life satisfaction for millions of Americans.Like it or not, our lives and opportunities are determined largely by luck. Kleinbard shows that while we can't undo every instance of misfortune, we can offer a path to not just a fairer America, but greater economic growth, more broadly shared.

What's Luck Got to Do with It?: How Smarter Government Can Rescue the American Dream

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Federal Income Taxation (Aspen Casebook)

Stark, Kirk J.

Shaviro, Daniel N.

Bankman, Joseph

Legal Education

Wolters Kluwer/Law & Business

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We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money

What's Luck Got to Do with It?: How Smarter Government Can Rescue the American Dream

We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money

Federal Income Taxation (Aspen Casebook)

Federal Income Taxation (Aspen Casebook)