The Government's Spending Plan To Reduce The Budget Deficit

Part I of Essay
On May 25th,1995, the Senate passed a spending plan intended to eliminate the budget deficit by the year 2002 by decreasing government spending while cutting taxes. The Senate's plan is less extreme than the plan passed by the House a week earlier, and both chambers hope t ....

Part II of Essay
.... Zeisler makes a persuasive argument against the low-tax lobby and the low-tax ethic itself. Zeisler's argument is, in effect, that in government as in business you get what you pay for--and in the case of taxes, he theorizes, the more citizens pay on a local level the more likely they will be to insist that they get their money's worth. Inadequate funding for schools and salaries so low that they fail to attract competent individuals to civil service jobs ultimately cost the citizenry more than would a tax increase. Because Americans are not ....