Entitlements.
Welfare.
Earmarks.
Pork.
Incremental expenditures.
The Internal Revenue Service
The Auditors General
The Treasury Department
The Congressional Budget Office
The General Accounting Office
The House Ways and Means Committee and its subcommittees.
The Commerce Committees and their subcommittees.
The Appropriations Committees and their subcommittees.
The Expenditures Committees and their subcommittees.
The Senate Finance Committee and its subcommittees.
Judging its merits.
Its deregulation.
Its implementation.
Funding it.
Its ratification.
Social insurance taxes
Personal income taxes
Sales taxes
Corporate income taxes
Borrowing
Failed to achieve its policy goals because of the outright hostility of street-level bureaucrats.
Was impossible to implement because of a lack of clarity in the legislation.
Was successfully implemented thanks to its clear goal, its clear methods to achieve the goal, and its lack of bureaucratic fragmentation.
Was very difficult to implement because of the fragmentation of responsibility for implementing it.
All but D are true.
Obtaining loans from the Federal Reserve.
Maintaining numerous credit card accounts.
Selling bonds.
Obtaining loans from foreign governments.
Printing more currency.
It becomes law.
Congress must vote it up or down as a package within ten days.
The president makes revisions and submits it to Congress.
It is sent to the Treasury Department for implementation.
It is either signed into law or vetoed by the president.
Are indifferent about bureaucracies and bureaucrats.
Dislike bureaucrats.
Actually like bureaucracies.
Are satisfied with help received from bureaucrats.
Want the government bureaucracy dismantled.
Those favoring regulation X, those opposing regulation X, and the regulatory agency in charge of overseeing X.
The president, the head of a relevant congressional committee, and the head of any regulatory agency.
A bureaucratic agency, an interest group, and a congressional committee or subcommittee.
The metal stamp used to certify that the president has approved a new regulation and it now takes legal effect.
Representatives of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.
It does not operate on the merit principle.
Firing incompetents is extremely difficult.
Workers are not protected against political firings.
Too many federal civil servants are actively involved in partisan politics.
All of the above
Military spending.
Education.
Roads and bridges.
Social services.
Health care.
Government corporations.
Presidential administrative agencies.
Cabinet departments.
Independent executive agencies.
Independent regulatory agencies.
The Secretary of the Treasury.
Congress.
The Internal Revenue Services.
The Congressional Budget Office.
The president.
Interstate Commerce
Hatch
Treason
Pendleton Civil Service
Voting Rights
It led to a major reduction in federal deficits.
It spread the tax burden more fairly among taxpayers.
It reduced the federal government's tax expenditures.
It led to a major reduction in government spending.
It provided new tax incentives for personal savings and investment.
Permit the president to cut any spending that exceeded deficit limits.
Change the way Congress enacted budgets.
Control deficit spending with the goal of balancing the federal budget.
All of the above
None of the above
The Congressional Budget Office
The Internal Revenue Service
The Commerce Department
The Office of Management and Budget
The Treasury Department
Promoting good monopolies.
Efficient and necessary.
Largely self-serving.
Loosely organized and loosely run.
Hindering democracy.
Talented experts with proven party loyalty.
Administrators who do not stay long enough in their appointed position to be effective.
People with access to the Internet, but not necessarily the most qualified people.
Large numbers of women and minorities, just as it was intended to.
Senior civil servants to sensitive posts.
Standard operating procedures.
Supreme Court rulings curbing the scope of their oversight.
"iron triangles."
The plum book.
The incentive system.
Policy implementation.
Regulation.
Administrative discretion.
Public administration.
Patronage.
Composed of an American elite.
More broadly representative of the American people than the rest of the federal government.
Now employing 15 percent of the American workforce.
Less diverse in terms of the types of jobs than the private sector.
Dominated by white males.
Appropriations.
Revenues.
Borrowing.
Inflation.
Authorizations.
Spoils System.
General Schedule.
Merit Schedule.
Federal Register.
Hatch Register.