Transfer Spending, Taxes, and the American Welfare State

by Wallace C. Peterson

In 1989 the federal government spent $1197 billion, a mind-boggling sum that is almost impossible to visualize. Since there were 248. 8 million people living in the United States in that year, the government spent an average of $4811 for every man, woman, and child in the nation. For a hypothetical family of four, federal spending in 1989 amounted to an average of$19,244. To put this sum in perspective, the money income of an American family averaged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792390776
• ISBN13: 9780792390770
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"