Fiscal Year 1977 Budget and the Economy: Hearings Before the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session ...

Capa
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 545 páginas
 

Outras edições - Ver tudo

Palavras e frases frequentes

Passagens conhecidas

Página 426 - I am here today speaking on behalf of the National League of Cities and the United States Conference of Mayors.
Página 495 - Board having as members the Secretary of the Interior, the Director of the National Park Service...
Página 335 - BUDGET MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT To the Congress of the United States: The Budget of the United States is a good roadmap of where we have been, where we are now, and where we should be going as a people. The budget reflects the President's sense of priorities. It reflects his best judgment of how we must choose among competing interests. And it reveals his philosophy of how the public and private spheres should be related. Accordingly, I have devoted a major portion of my own time over the last several...
Página 469 - ... that follow. As I see it, the budget has three important dimensions. One is the budget as an element of our economic policy. The total size of the budget and the deficit or surplus that results can substantially affect the general health of our economy — in a good way or in a bad way. If we try to stimulate the economy beyond its capacity to respond, it will lead only to a future whirlwind of inflation and unemployment.
Página 335 - We must not continue drifting in the direction of bigger and bigger government. The driving force of our 200-year history has been our private sector. If we rely on it and nurture it, the economy will continue to grow, providing new and better choices for our people and the resources necessary to meet our shared needs. If, instead, we continue to increase government's share of our economy, we will have no choice but to raise taxes and will, in the process, dampen further the forces of competition,...
Página 335 - ... continue to increase government's share of our economy, we will have no choice but to raise taxes and will, in the process, dampen further the forces of competition, risk, and reward that have served us so well. With stagnation of these forces, the issues of the future would surely be focused on who gets what from an economy of little or no growth rather than, as it should be, on the use to be made of expanding incomes and resources. As an important step toward reversing the long-term trend,...
Página 419 - The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. We are very pleased this morning to have the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.
Página 258 - My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards...
Página 36 - National Defense 150 International Affairs 250 General Science, Space, and Technology 270 Energy 300 Natural Resources and Environment 350 Agriculture 370 Commerce and Housing Credit 400 Transportation 450 Community and Regional Development 500 Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 550 Health 570 Medicare 600 Income Security 650 Social Security 700 Veterans...
Página 204 - Under my program, all needy children can be fed, but subsidies for the nonpoor will be eliminated. —A block grant that will support a community's social service programs for the needy. This would be accomplished by removing current requirements unnecessarily restricting the flexibility of States in providing such services. These initiatives will result in more equitable distribution of Federal dollars, and provide greater State discretion and responsibility. All requirements that States match Federal...

Informação bibliográfica