Book excerpt: Excerpt from Administration's Fiscal Year 1984 Budget Proposals, II, Vol. 4 of 4: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session, June 15, 16, 22, 23, 28 and 29, 1983; June 28 and 29, 1983 Tax Expenditures Prepared statement of Dr. Alice M. Rivlin and her answers to questions from Senators Dole and Long 22. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.