The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less. Public Affairs.

Bradley, E., & Taylor, L. (2013). The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less. Public Affairs.
 Category: Budget Path (Implementation of a medicare advisory directive), Domestic, Social and Economic Spending
 This book shows how and why the American Healthcare system developed as it did. Authors outline the historical development of the social-service and health-service sector, show that they split early in American history, unlike in other countries, which see them as two facets of the same system. In page 13, the authors shows the correlation between the government debt and healthcare spending. This split is not working as effective as it was designed to be due to misallocation of spending: too much in health service and too little in social service.

Cordes, J. J., Ebel, R. D., & Gravelle, J. (2005). The Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy. Washington DC: The Urban Institute.
 Category: Revenue
 This book talks about what a good tax system is, issues in many current federal, state, local, and international tax policy problems. The author thinks that it is necessary to expand tax revenues in order to reduce the gap between government spending and government income.

CRFB. (2014, March 12). Stabilize the Debt: An Online Exercise in Hard Choices. Retrieved from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: http://crfb.org/stabilizethedebt/
 This website provides brief explanations on current federal budget issues. It suggests possible choices for reducing government debt and explains how each choice is related to government spending.

Gwartney, J., Stroup, R., & Sobel, R. (2014). Economics: Private and Public Choice. Boston: Cengage Learning.
 Category: budget path(reduction in discretionary spending)
 In Part VI in this textbook, the authors evaluate past government policies and attempts to reduce federal debts, and show how government policies affect on the economy. In Special Topic #8, for example, the authors think that the attempt to reduce federal debt by issuing the Budget Control Legislation in 2011 was not sufficient, and therefore a stronger measure must be taken to reduce the federal debt.

Irving, S. J. (2011). Budget Process: Enforcing Fiscal Choices: Congressional Testimony. New York: DIANE Publishing.

Miller, R. M. (2007). Funding Extended Conflicts: Korea, VIetnam and the War on Terror. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Publishing Group.
 Category: budget path (elimination of war funding)
 The book takes a look at the three major wars that the US actively involved. The author tells about issues related to financing and budgeting war. The author basically tells that war funding contributes to federal debts but it also benefits the economy because it creates job opportunities. The author supports on-going military exercises and homeland security policies, but admits that most of war funding came from the government debt.

Murrin, J., Johnson, P., & McPherson, J. (2013). Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Concise Edition. Boston: Cengage Learning.
 Category: Domestic, social and economic spending (restriction of Pell Grants Eligibility)
 This book was my textbook for American History course. Briefly talks about government scholarships such as Pell Grants, student loans, and so on.

Schumer, C. E. (2008). War at Any Price?: The Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget. New York: DIANE Publishing.
 Category: Defense, diplomacy and security

Shi, L., & Signh, D. A. (2009). Essentials of the U.S. Healthcre System. New York: Jones & Bartnett.
 Category: Budget path (healthcare)