Talk:Fiscal policy of the United States

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This U.S. Department of Treasury page says that the debt in 2005 was $8.1 trillion, not $319 billion. Am I not figuring something in, or is the article just incorrect? Ryan Salisbury 21:42, 12 June 2006 (UTC)You are confusing the yearly deficit with the accumulated national debt.

Tag
I put a tag on this as the referencing is very vague - a huge web article and no specific of what is being referenced - and also some possible OR. --Alfadog (talk) 17:48, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Page needs focus
Will work on it. Soxwon (talk) 18:40, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Critique
Just a few notes: I did not critique the modern section because it looks like you haven't been over a lot of it. Let me know if I'm incorrect in thinking that. I'm also going to go through the article and do some minor grammar cleanup/wikilinking. Pay attention to any citation needed tags that I add. Let me know if you need anything! If you respond here, please leave a talkback on my user talk page. Good work! – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 05:22, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Avoid referring to the U.S. as "we". It's pretty informal, and a lot of people reading the article may not necessarily be from the U.S.
 * You should refer to Roosevelt as "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt" or similar the first time, wikilinked of course, and then in any future cases simply as "Roosevelt". It's more consistent than switching between "FDR", "President Roosevelt", etc.
 * This sentence is awkward: "It affected some countries worse than others, and the US effects were detrimental." Perhaps "detrimental" isn't quite the right word...
 * "These numbers were up significantly from ten years ago when federal receipts averaged 3.80 percent of GNP while expenditures averaged 3.04 percent of GNP." Ten years ago from today? Or ten years ago then? If the former, why is it relavent in that place? If the latter, that should be clarified.
 * "Although the recovery and reform aspects of The New Deal proved to be effective for President Roosevelt, recovery was an issue that did not." This needs to be reworded. It sounds like "recovery was an issue that did not prove to be effective", which doesn't make sense.
 * "The act declared the continuing policy and responsibility of the federal government to use all reasonable means to promote maximum (not full) employment, production, and purchasing power." Again, this should be reworded.

Peer Review
Good history and background on the budget and great depression.

There were a few instances of using personal pronouns (ie we) when mentioning the United States.

Modern fiscal policy section stops at 2009. Were you planning on ending there or continuing to today?

Also in that section, it may be wise to find a graph or chart depicting the deficit and budget from 2000 on, opposed to providing a paragraph of numbers. Otherwise its very informative and looks great.Mwbjmu620 (talk) 18:31, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

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