Saving Our Future requires Tough Choices Today
Published: Feb 27, 2006. Publicly Released: Feb 27, 2006.
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This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the Duke University Town Hall Forum on February 27, 2006. Major topics of this presentation include: the growing fiscal burden, medicare and social security spending, and a three-pronged approach for the way forward.
Saving Our Future requires Tough Choices Today
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- Composition of Federal Spending
- Federal Spending for Mandatory and Discretionary Programs
- Surplus or Deficit as a Share of GDP Fiscal Years 1962-2005
- Fiscal Year 2004 and 2005 Deficits and Net Operating Costs
- Estimated Fiscal Exposures (in $ trillions)
- How Big is Our Growing Fiscal Burden?
- Composition of Spending as a Share of GDP Under Baseline Extended
- Composition of Spending as a Share of GDP Assuming Discretionary Spending Grows with GDP after 2006 and All Expiring Tax Provisions are Extended
- U.S. Elderly Dependency Ratio Expected to Continue to Increase
- Growth in Spending for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Expected to Outpace Economic Growth
- Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Spending as a Percent of GDP
- Debt per Capita Could Exceed GDP Per Capita by 2030 Assuming Discretionary Spending Grows with GDP after 2006 and All Expiring Tax Provisions are Extended
- Current Fiscal Policy Is Unsustainable
- The Way Forward: Three Pronged Approach
- 21st Century Challenges Report
- Measured on an Outlay Equivalent Basis, Tax Expenditures Exceeded Discretionary Spending for Most Years in the Last Decade
- Health Care Is the Nation's Top Tax Expenditure in Fiscal Year 2005
- Moving the Debate Forward
- Close