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Traditionally, states’ rights were invoked by southern states to defend slavery, and then nearly a century of Jim Crow (the legal framework for racial segregation), from federal interference, thereby preserving southern business owners’ and farmers’ control of their black labor force.
More recently, socially conservative states have appealed to the Tenth Amendment to oppose progressive legislation and the expansion of federal powers more generally.
Can Americans who oppose the contraction of social programs and revocation of progressive federal legislation use states’ rights to counter these trends?
Another is to plow Medicare dollars provided by the federal government into the plan.
“Why do we look to the federal government to try and fix our local problems?”
They could eliminate the federal deductibility of state taxes to increase the cost of funding state programs.
They could curtail federal support for public services in sanctuary cities and states with immigrant-friendly policies.
But, as technological progress has increased options for saving, extending, and improving lives, health-care costs have skyrocketed, raising Medicare costs from 3.5% of federal expenditures in 1970 to 15.1% today.
This year’s federal budget allots $1.9 trillion – more than half of all annual federal expenditure – for health care (including Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans’ benefits), Social Security, and federal retirement.
By matching Israel’s health-spending efficiency, the US could cut the cost of Medicare and Medicaid by $400 billion annually and eliminate nearly half of the federal deficit.
These steps would alleviate pressure on the federal budget, without requiring a further increase in income taxes or cuts to defense and other federal spending.
Clinton’s administration showed that a balanced federal budget, even with higher taxes, supports stronger economic growth than lower taxes with vast deficits.
But it would also mean abandoning France’s republic in favor of a federal European government – anathema to that “certain idea of France.”
But, since the late 1990s – and especially after 2000, when the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled for 70 years, was swept from power – Mexico has made significant inroads in combating the practice, at least at the federal level.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s significantly extended the previously minimal role of the US federal government.
A Comeback for CongressNEW DELHI – The stunning victory this month of the opposition Indian National Congress in three elections to state assemblies – the local “parliaments” that decide who governs federal India’s 29 provincial units – is a major blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In exchange for shifting to a territorial system and reducing the tax rate, the federal government could tax all of these untaxed past earnings at a low rate to be paid over a ten-year period.
Like the NPD in the 1960s, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) owes its success in last September’s federal election to the refusal of the country’s political, economic, and academic elites to engage constructively with the public, much less with those the public believed were willing to address their concerns.
Most, indeed, implicitly assume a massive transfer of almost all functions of government from member states to the federal center, and thus the creation of a “European superstate.”
Assuming a flat rate of national contributions to the federal budget, Greece, for example, would shed 2-3 precious percentage points from its public deficit.
In addition to defense and security, it would make sense to move other competencies to the federal level.
These functions of government, and a federal budget of this size, would, of course, require the equivalent of a finance minister.
But when some of these functions are assigned to a federal level of government, one has the additional tool of being able to transfer resources to pay for these tasks.
New York’s government and people do not protest because Mississippi receives far more from the federal budget, relative to what it contributes, than New Yorkers do.
The CRA instructs federal financial supervisory agencies to encourage the institutions that they regulate to help the communities in which they are chartered to meet their credit needs, while also conforming to “safe and sound” standards.
Several months later, only 4%-6% of the funds have been spent, and the federal government is brow-beating state governments – for example, demanding that California rescind a small pay cut for some unionized workers or lose $7 billion in stimulus funds.
The Federal Reserve lowered its target federal funds rate to zero before Obama was inaugurated, and initiated many programs to try to revive credit markets, with mixed results (the commercial paper facility has helped, whereas others seem to have gotten off to less sanguine starts).
Unfortunately, the numbers don’t add up and he is laying twin time bombs with the explosion of federal government debt and inefficient government micromanagement of the economy.
But in the recent federal election campaign, both of Germany’s main political parties ruled out proposals to raise the retirement age to 70, even though there are good reasons for doing precisely that.
In the United States, the federal government has primary responsibility for defense, public old-age pensions (Social Security), and health care for the elderly (Medicare); sub-national governments are responsible for education and law enforcement.
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