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Anyone who listened to his speeches or read his campaign material should have noted that he was not proposing that the federal government should carry out the infrastructure investment.
The authorities must resolve fundamental constitutional questions (such as whether Iraq should be a federal state or a confederation), rebuild civil society, reform state institutions, reconstruct the economy, and end the waste and corruption in the oil sector.
State spending left over from the previous year is routinely included in the federal budget, regardless of whether the renewed authorization serves a specific and necessary purpose.
Decades of “cutting the fat” in government has left little to cut: federal government employment as a percentage of the population is lower today than it was in the era of small government under President Ronald Reagan some 30 years ago.
Indeed, US military spending exceeds the sum of federal budgetary outlays for education, agriculture, climate change, environmental protection, ocean protection, energy systems, homeland security, low-income housing, national parks and national land management, the judicial system, international development, diplomatic operations, highways, public transport, veterans affairs, space exploration and science, civilian research and development, civil engineering for waterways, dams, bridges, sewerage and waste treatment, community development, and many other areas.
And yet, before this year, Moscow’s mayor was appointed by the federal government, not elected by Muscovites.
But only two policies are particularly promising for such a “Pact for America”: federal infrastructure spending and corporate-tax reform.
A commitment to a multi-year federal infrastructure-spending program, for example, could increase demand, private investment, and employment, even though projects may not be immediately available.
Given their policy objectives, conservatives should support a well-crafted federal infrastructure program, and liberals should support corporate-tax reform.
Instead, there has been a backlash against the barrage of federal government spending, deficits, and debt.
These programs are already some of the government’s largest budget items, accounting for $1 trillion in spending – 26% of the federal budget – in 2016.
The federal budget is balanced for the first time in a decade.
An even bigger question mark hovers over what might be the greatest national security concern of all: the federal budget deficit.
For example, while Americans could have supported more aggressive fuel-economy standards or increased federal taxes on energy, they didn’t.
In other words, issuing Eurobonds entails setting up a federal system of government, one recognized as such by Europe’s states and peoples.
The federal funds rate is currently at only 2.25%.
Though many people have lost faith in the federal government, they still trust local institutions.
The Germany that emerged from this process is uniquely suited to act as a model for Europe, owing to its federal character, which is reflected in strong constitutional guarantees of states’ rights.
If Germany’s new government leads the charge toward a stronger, more federal Europe, a century from now, there may well be no sovereign German political unit at all.
The US Federal Reserve can cut 100 basis points from the federal funds rate and not lose control over US inflationary expectations.
In announcing the first use of the law by a minor, Wim Distelmans, the head of Belgium’s federal euthanasia commission, pointed out that there are very few children for whom the question of euthanasia is raised.
Many state and local governments in poorer regions of the country are at risk of bankruptcy unless the federal government undertakes a massive bailout of their finances.
So, despite the rise in the household saving rate, unless federal government policies change to shrink America’s future budget deficits, the US will continue to be dependent on capital inflows from the rest of the world.
It would also be good news for America’s fiscal position, because Medicare and Medicaid are the two largest contributors to the long-term federal budget deficit.
The long-term effect on the federal budget implied by a sustained reduction in the growth of Medicare and Medicaid spending to the rates of the last several years would be profound.
Trends in the US budget reflect an inconvenient truth: If the growth of spending on health-care programs cannot be slowed, stabilizing the federal debt at a sustainable level will require deep cuts in spending on other priorities and increases in taxes on the middle class.
Counterproductive and excessive fiscal austerity at the federal level has dampened growth this year, but the private sector has proved more resilient than expected.
But growth prospects could be undermined by another bruising political battle over the federal budget, resulting in deep spending cuts.
Consider his statements about the US federal government’s persistently growing debt.
Here, the right, represented by the Republican Party, has long been suspicious of the Fed, reflecting its opposition to a powerful federal government, as well as nostalgia for the days of the gold standard (particularly the version that operated before the Fed was created in 1913).
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