Transcript Chapter 9

Chapter 11
Federal
Spending
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Chapter Outline
• A Primer on the Constitution and
Spending Money
• Using our Understanding of
Opportunity Cost
• Using our Understanding of
Marginal Analysis
• Budgeting for the Future
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Federal Spending as a
Percentage of GDP
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The Budget Process
• “No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in
consequence of appropriations made by law;..”
• Both houses of Congress must pass identical bills
• President must sign or have veto overridden
• President sends Congress a proposed budget
• Congress passes its version of the budget (the
president does not have to sign or veto)
• Congress passes Appropriations Bills
• President signs or vetoes Appropriations Bills
• Tax Law changes must originate in the House of
Representatives
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Shenanigans in the Process
• Pork-Barrel spending guided by important committee
chairs.
• Conference committees meet to settle differences
between House and Senate versions of the
appropriations bills.
• Members of conference committees often add
provisions that were not in either bill to help their
constituents.
• Logrolling occurs when Members of Congress
agree to support spending programs in each other’s
districts. This vote trading increases spending.
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Dealing with Disagreements
• When dealing with a disagreement
• Congress can give in to the president
• The president can give in to the Congress
• They can stalemate and shut the
government down
• They can pass a Continuing Resolution
• Continuing Resolution: a bill passed by
Congress and signed by the president that
allows the government to temporarily spend
money in a fashion identical to the previous
year
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Using Opportunity Cost
• Crowding Out: the opportunity
cost of government spending is that
private spending is reduced
• Money spent on one government
program can not be spent on another
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Mandatory vs. Discretionary
Spending
• Mandatory Spending: those items for
which a previously passed law requires
the money be spent
• Examples (Medicare, Medicaid, Social
Security, variety of welfare programs,
interest on the debt)
• Discretionary Spending is on those
items for which a previous law does not
exist.
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Spending in FY2011
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Mandatory vs. Discretionary
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Non Defense Discretionary
Category
2012 in Billions
Science and Space
33
Natural Resources and the
Environment
37
Agriculture
Transportation
17
144
Education and Training
102
Veterans
129
Justice
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Federal Spending by Category
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Real Health Spending
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International Comparisons
of Defense Spending
Country
Defense Spending/GDP 2005
United States
4.0
France
2.4
United Kingdom
2.6
Germany
1.5
Japan
0.8
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Using Marginal Analysis
• The question of the size of government
• The optimal size of government is where the
marginal benefit of the last dollar taken from the
private sector and placed in the public sector
equals its marginal cost.
• The question of the distribution of government
• The optimal distribution of government spending is
where the marginal benefit of spending on one
program equals the marginal benefit achieved in all
other programs.
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Budgeting For the Future
• Baseline Budgeting: using last
year’s budgeted figure to set this
year’s budgeted figure
• Current Services Budgeting: using
an estimate of the costs of providing
the same level of services next year as
last
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Obama Stimulus Plan
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Obama Stimulus Plan
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Obama Stimulus Plan
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