Topics: Public Finance, welfare economics, market failure, public goods, public choice, externalities, political economy, direct democracy, representative democracy, education, public pending, cost-benefit analysis, present value, benefit-cost ration, private sector project evaluation, social discount rate, public expenditure, social insurance, income maintenance, health care market, health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, health care reform, social security, income redistribution, distribution of income, expenditure incidence, income maintenance, work incentives, earned income tax credit, supplemental security income, unemployment insurance, food stamps, child nutrition, housing assistance, taxation, income distribution, Partial Equilibrium Models, Optimal Commodity Taxation, Optimal Income Taxation, United states revenue system, personal income tax, income, personal taxation, labor supply, saving, Portfolio Composition, corporation tax, State Corporation Taxes, Corporation Tax Reform, deficit finance, Retail Sales Tax, Value-Added Tax, Hall-Rabushka Flat Tax, wealth taxes, multigovernment public finance, property tax, Intergovernmental Grants