The Concord Coalition
www.concordcoalition.org

Non-partisan, grassroots organization advocating fiscal responsibility

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
www.crfb.org

Bipartisan organization committed to educating the public about issues that have significant fiscal policy impact.

Office of Management And Budget
www.whitehouse.gov/omb

Executive branch budget office

OMB: the federal budget
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/

Detailed presentation of the federal budget

Urban Institute
www.urban.org

From Urban: Nonpartisan Economic and Social Policy Research Organizations

CATO
www.cato.org

From CATO: ...principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace

Brookings Institute
www.brook.edu

From Brookings: ...nonprofit devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions

Heritage
www.heritage.org

From Heritage: ...promoting conservative policies based on free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom

Progressive Policy Institute
www.ppionline.org

From PPI: ...mission is to define and promote a new progressive politics

American Enterprise Institute
www.aei.org

From AEI: ...to improve the institutions of American freedom-limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, and open debate.

Center for American Progresswww.americanprogress.org

From CAP:  €¦founded on the ideals of the progressive movement at the turn of the century

Where Does the Money Go? Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson
Collins 2008

Breezily written, this book is a fast read. It is chock full of information, insights, anecdotes, and perspective. A terrific gift for people who are concerned about taxes and deficits, but have not yet ventured beyond their daily news feed for information. Buy it and give it; but read it before you pass it on.

Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy
C. Eugene Steurele
Urban Institute Press 2004

Extraordinarily readable, balanced explanation of US tax policy since WWII with a concentration on the 1980s and 1990s. It answers the question, "How did we get here?"

Parliament of Whores
PJ O'Rourke
Atlantic Monthly Press 1991

Wildly funny, occasionally profane tour through government programs from a libertarian perspective. It's a real hoot for Boomers (and younger) that remember the 80s.

The Coming Generational Storm - What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future
Lawrence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns
MIT Press 2004

This book will prompt you sit up and think. As Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise wrote: "If Stephen King wrote about economics it would look like this...The authors describe that nightmare vividly and identify why our elected officials...are too cowardly to save us."

Restoring Fiscal Sanity
Alice Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill
Brookings 2004

This book is a collection of articles by a selection of think tank stars. Both authors are extraordinarily serious economists, budget experts and Senior Fellows at Brookings. Rivlin was Clinton's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and a Governor of the Federal Reserve, Sawhill was an Associate Director of OMB in the first Clinton Administration.

Fix the U.S. Budget, Urgings of an Abominable No-Man
Jim Miller
Hoover Press 1994

Jim Miller was director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan. This book is less a theoretical tract than an entertaining historical piece of a time of exceptional budgetary ferment and reform. This is how the real world works.

America's Priorities - How the U.S. Government Raises and Spends $3,000,000,000,000 (Trillion) Per Year
Charles S. Konigsberg
AuthorHouse 2007

An informative "Federal Budget 101" course from an insider. It describes the budget process, where taxes are raised, major federal spending programs, and discusses the growing use of hybrid programs, those that "spend" money by reducing taxes for favored groups. A nuts and bolts overview of how Washington handles public money.