It is easy to dismiss our
federal budget-deficit and debt clashes as a passing fad, just a case of partisan politics. But there is a very real problem and it is we the voters. We can’t make the tough choices. We want government spending, but we don’t want to pay the taxes to fund it.
In
Here's the Deal, David Leonhardt, the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times economic columnist, explains lucidly the situation in which we find ourselves and how we can get out of it. And he does it in just 40,000 words (about 100 pages) and for a price of two dollars.
