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Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment
891 wordsThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the short- and long-term effects of current budget deficits and the nation debt. In order to do this; I first had to find out exactly what they were. I will also discuss whether I think the government should operate with a balanced budget. Budget deficit is the amount by which total government spending is more than government income during a specified period; the amount of money which the government has to raise by borrowing or currency emission in order t...
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Executive Branch Social Security
275 wordsTHE RISE OF THE BUREAUCRATIC STATE The bureaucracy has been constantly growing since its beginning. At the end of the Federalist period, only 3, 000 civilian officials were appointed; then in 1925 about half a million were employees in the bureaucracy. However, the size of the bureaucracy is completely insignificant. What matters is the amount of power that can be exercised by the members of the bureaucratic agencies. The author, James Q. Wilson, provides an example that in 1971, the federal gov...
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