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  2. Fiscal policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    As a percentage of the GDP, within the context of the national economy as a whole, the highest deficit was run during fiscal year 1946 at nearly 30% of GDP, but that rebounded to a surplus by 1947. By contrast, deficits during the 1980s reached 5–6% of GDP and the deficit for 2005 was 2.6% of GDP, close to the post-World War II average.

  3. National fiscal policy responses to the Great Recession

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    A statement on the government's website said the State Council had approved a plan to invest 4 trillion yuan in infrastructure and social welfare by the end of 2010. [5] [6] This stimulus, equivalent to US$586 billion, represented a pledge comparable to that subsequently announced by the United States, but which came from an economy only one third the size. [7]

  4. Mandatory spending - Wikipedia

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    In fiscal year (FY) 1965, mandatory spending accounted for 5.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). [4] In FY 2016, mandatory spending accounted for about 60 percent of the federal budget and over 13 percent of GDP. [5] Mandatory spending received $2.4 trillion of the total $3.9 trillion of federal spending in 2016. [5]

  5. 2002 United States federal budget - Wikipedia

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    The United States Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2002, was a spending request by President George W. Bush to fund government operations for October 2001-September 2002. Figures shown in the spending request do not reflect the actual appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002, which must be authorized by Congress.

  6. Political debates about the United States federal budget

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    In other words, a higher budget deficit is consistent with more economic stimulus and job creation, while a lower budget deficit means less economic stimulus and job creation. For example, the CBO forecast the economic results for 2013 under low- and high-deficit scenarios related to the United States fiscal cliff. Under the lower deficit ...

  7. Trump’s first year will be filled with fiscal follies

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    Relief swept Washington, D.C., after Congress ended a budget standoff and passed a short-term spending bill on Dec. 21, averting a government shutdown. But that year-end legislative battle may ...

  8. Public finance - Wikipedia

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    They also developed a well-maintained system of roads and colonies which led to one of the first real tax systems. Their system was tbased on two types of taxes: tributa and vectigalia. The former included the land tax and a poll tax, while the latter was made up of another poll tax, an inheritance tax, a sales tax, and a postage tax. Other ...

  9. History of taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The estate tax is one part of the Unified Gift and Estate Tax system in the United States. The other part of the system, the gift tax, imposes a tax on transfers of property during a person's life; the gift tax prevents avoidance of the estate tax should a person want to give away his/her estate just before dying.