The Magnitude of Changes That Would Be Required to Balance the FY2011 Budget

Labonte, Marc

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Budgets;    Balanced budgets;    Federal budgets;    Fiscal policy;   

RP-ID  :  RS21939
RP-ID  :  RS21939_2010Mar12

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report lays out generic scenarios for balancing the budget in the next fiscal year. Although these are not policy options that are likely to be enacted, they are meant to offer simple examples to gauge the scope of tradeoffs that would be required if policymakers eventually decide to bring the budget back to balance. If changes are postponed or stretched over a longer time period, they would need to be larger because of higher debt service.