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Matching funds flow from the federal government to state and local governments by formulae delineating the shared responsibilities.
Prior to the current crisis, US government revenue was roughly 60% federal and 40% state and local.
The US Constitution knitted together the thirteen original colonies, and its Tenth Amendment reserves to the states all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government.
When states got waivers for time limits and work or training requirements for welfare recipients, they were so successful that federal welfare reform followed.
In response, the federal government introduced new restrictions on margarine, covering everything from labeling (as with genetically modified foods today), the use of artificial coloring, and interstate movement.
Many observers had hoped that Germany’s recent federal election would open a “window of opportunity” for EU-level reforms.
Similarly, proposals in the United States for a federal jobs guarantee have been gaining momentum on the traditional left.
But while such a program could employ millions of workers to deliver basic public services and rebuild and modernize the country’s dilapidated infrastructure, it is no more feasible than a UBI, given current federal budget constraints.
In the US, three steps can be taken now to achieve this goal: a substantial increase in the minimum wage and a robust earned income tax credit (EITC), both indexed to regional costs of living and automatically adjusted for inflation; and easy enrollment of eligible workers for federal and state benefits.
Similarly, one in five eligible workers nationwide (more than six million people) do not file for the federal EITC each year, losing out on some $16 billion in unclaimed credits.
Clearly, more aggressive public marketing programs are required to raise awareness about the EITC at both the state and federal levels.
And beyond that, the federal government should strengthen incentives for states to match federal EITC payments based on their cost of living.
Enrollment in federal benefits such as Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Pell Grants also needs to be simplified.
Currently, more than $50 billion worth of federal benefits goes unclaimed every year.
And Germany’s upcoming federal election undoubtedly loomed large in her mind.
But there are many more promises to fulfill, including further dismantling of subsidies, trimming the government wage bill at the federal and provincial levels, bringing inflation down to single-digit levels, and making the pension system actuarially sound and fairer to younger people.
As for the third, the US Federal Reserve’s slow motion monetary tightening has just put the federal funds rate above 1%, and plans to pare the Fed’s asset holdings appear to be in the works.
But each percentage-point reduction in the corporate-tax rate would reduce federal revenues by about $12 billion per year.
Democrats oppose vouchers and prefer major federal investments in order to improve the quality of public schools.
They lied about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction; lied about why Iraq had to be attacked, and then about the course of the war there; and the head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency at the time, Christie Whitman, even lied about the air quality in lower Manhattan after the attack, leading thousands of New York City children to suffer from severe respiratory problems.
After Alexander Hamilton, the country’s first treasury secretary, mutualized the states’ Revolutionary War debts in 1791 by turning them into federal debt, the states went on a borrowing binge to finance infrastructure projects.
Adjusted for inflation, today’s federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour is 23% lower than it was in 1968.
Under his leadership, the federal income tax system has become more progressive, and Obamacare is the most progressive social-insurance program since Medicare and Medicaid began in 1965.
Exhausted by the ongoing war, most Chechens now are ready to resolve their problems within the framework provided by Russia's elastic federal structure.
The head of the Kremlin-appointed Chechen administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, is already discussing this with the president of the federal election commission.
ASI’s profits stem from Apple’s intellectual property (IP) rights, which are based on research and development conducted exclusively in the US (most of it underpinned by federal government funding).
Last April, the European Parliament voted virtually unanimously for the Assyrians to be allowed to establish (on the basis of section 5 of the Iraqi Constitution) a federal region where they can be free from outside interference to practice their own way of life.
Overall spending is still dwarfed by US federal research and development spending, which will total $137 billion in the 2007 fiscal year.
Such a basic law would not automatically mean transformation of today’s union into the federal supra-state feared by Eurosceptics.
Today the US federal government is the world’s biggest venture capitalist by far.
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