... Second, debt financing of wars shifts part of the cost of wars to fu-ture generations, who will have to pay off the government debt. This is argu-ably a fair distribution of the burden, for future ... the Republicans took control of Congress in 1995, deficit reduc-tion was high on their legislative agenda. Both of these efforts substantially re-duced the size of the government budget deficit, ... 1990s.Source: U.S. Department of Treasury; U.S.Department of Commerce; and T. S. Berry,“Production and Population since 1789,”Bostwick Paper No. 6, Richmond, 1988.572 PART NINE THE REAL ECONOMY...