Introduction: public finance in its economic and political setting. -- Fiscal administration. -- Public expenditures: trends and their significance. -- Fiscal policy and the level of economic activity. -- Government expenditure and economic instability. -- Fiscal rograms to promote stability. -- Allocation of resources between the public and private sectors of the economy. -- Public debt: its nature and its management. -- Public debt and the money supply. -- The burden of debt. -- Public revenues: grants, gifts, and administrative revenues. -- Commercial revenues: government business enterprises. -- Taxes: allocation of tax burdens. -- Tax incidence and other effects. -- Property taxation. -- Personal income taxation. -- The nature of net income for tax purposes. --
Taxation of personal income from business corporations. -- Strengthening the personal income tax. -- Taxes on sales. -- Death and gift taxes. -- Business taxes. -- Taxes on employment and miscellaneous taxes. -- State and local finance in the national economy