About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

1 1 (March 2017)

handle is hein.amenin/aeiacun0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points Trimming government A a perennIial objec[ve, but al rost never haocens. Why does government insraoly gow Pubiic choice analsis oers some centra insights: The ocitica demands for governrnert, the nature of the services that governmient provides, and the recharnisrms throuah which it orovides and hrnances thne are inconsistent with reductions in government spending. The clear objective in the list Trump badger of expanding defense spending at the expense or vanous orestic programs clashes with those fundarmenta politicai dynarnis. Back in the old days, presidents subm''itted budgets to Congress. No more. They now submit dead.-on-arrval budgets. This new eternal truth is illustrated by several headlines following the new budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 transmitted to Congress) Two examples: Trump Budget Likely to See Major Rewrite in Congress and The t9 Federal Agencies irump Wants to Eliminate,3 The adninistration proposes these cuts to various bureaus as a means of funding an increase in defense budget au'hority wile respecting overall budget caps. That there is deep skepticism about the crostoects for such truiing unsurprisingly is a vast understatement, But why, precisely? Why is reducing the size of governmTent so difficult? To say that programs have constituencies in the electorate and therefore in Congress does not quite answer the question, because the constituencies existed, presumably, before the programs became what they are. in other words, the question of why programs are difficult or impossible to cut is not quite the right one, Instead, the more basic question is: Why does government grow? There is an extensive literature on this question, one that suggests several bypotheses about the sources of that growth.) A brief sum mary f thos c overlapping hypotheses would center on the following: a Policies to provide collective goods and to address externaliries * The redistribution of wealth, * The demands of interest groups, * The bureaucracy as an interest group, and * Decreases in the cost of coilecti ng taxes.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most