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Public Budgeting and Finance
Public Budgeting and Finance Final OU-Tulsa
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Graduate
02/14/2010

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Major forms of tax revenue
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Defining taxable wealth
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Tax revenue sources by level of government
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How have these sources changed and why?
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Tax capacity vs. tax effort
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Tax expenditures and nontax revenues
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Criteria for evaluating taxes and user fees
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Tax-raising strategies
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The politics of tax reform
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Revenue forecasting (what it is and different types)
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Univariate vs. multi-variate forecasting
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Standards for tax policy
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Taxes and externalities
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Arguments for and against taxing income
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Selective excise taxation
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Value-added taxes
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VAT vs. RST
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Advantages and limitations of user charges
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Set-up of State Board of Equalization
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Legal parameters to appropriations as a % of revenue estimates
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Basic legislative process
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Line-item vetoes
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Basic set-up of Rainy Day Fund
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Key differences between OKC and Tulsa budgeting systems
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Performance budgeting
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New performance budgeting
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Zero-based budgeting
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Program budgeting
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Balanced budget amendment
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Entitlement caps
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Push and pull factors in budgeting
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Major laws that changed Federal budgeting (what precipitated them and their effects)
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Rise of entitlements and backdoor spending
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Presidential-congressional rivalry on budgeting (power swing)
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Omnibus bills and presidential veto power (also line-item veto)
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Steps of Federal budget process (see handout for overview)
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Major shifts in Federal funding
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Role of the President in budgeting (formal and informal, opportunities and challenges)
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OMB's conflicting mandates
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Congressional changes and budgeting
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Discretionary spending caps
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Era's of presidential-congressional politics on budgeting
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Social Security challenges; Social Security Act
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Social Security reform proposals
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Arguments for and against deficits at the Federal level
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