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But, though federal law allows such municipal debt to be restructured under Chapter 9 of the bankruptcy code in all 50 states, this does not apply to US territories like Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico should, over time, become more like one of the 50 states in its fiscal relationship with the federal government.
The federal government provides significantly more support to every state health-care system through Medicare (for pensioners) and Medicaid (for low-income households), despite the fact that Puerto Ricans pay the same federal payroll taxes that fund much of the Medicare program.
The US federal deficit is an alarming 12% of GDP, and public debt as a share of national income is already projected to double, to 80% of GDP.
Advocating supply-side economics to the white working class, he convinced millions that “less government,” which meant cutting federal programs, including education – would bring “morning in America.”
The US has long had a federal system.
Americans in all 50 states pay federal taxes into the national treasury, and elected federal representatives then allocate the funds to the states.
There was no Federal Automobile Board to set the price of vehicles the way the Federal Reserve Board set the price of federal funds.
In the years 1917 to 1919, US participation in World War I and anarchist bombings after the war led to almost two thousand federal prosecutions, mass roundups of aliens, and summary deportations.
At the same time, Bush has systematically packed the federal courts with judges chosen for their readiness to defer to presidential power.
The Federal Reserve will not buy their government bonds, and the federal authorities will not issue any guarantees.
Former President Barack Obama issued a directive to phase out private federal prisons, but the Trump administration reversed it.
Abdul Kalam, India's president since 2002, has stressed the need to build global competitiveness from the ground up--within each of the country's federal states.
By emphasizing the federal nature of India's polity, he is directly addressing an issue that has moved front and center in debates over economic reform in an era of globalization.
If this trend persists, the existence and stability of India as a federal democracy will inevitably be called into question, because the laggard states have large populations and account for a majority of parliamentary constituencies.
But it would require some extremely unlikely data to change the Fed’s implicit plan to end its purchases of long-term assets (so-called quantitative easing) in October 2014 and to start raising the federal funds rate from its current near-zero level sometime in the first half of 2015.
The midpoint of the opinions recorded at most recent FOMC meeting implies a federal funds rate of 1.25-1.5% at the end of 2015.
At a time when inflation is already close to 2% or higher, depending on how it is measured, the real federal funds rate would be at zero at the end of 2015.
So if price stability were the Fed’s only goal, the federal funds rate should now be close to 4%.
In that case, the Fed is likely to raise the federal funds rate more rapidly and to a higher year-end level than its recent statements imply.
This discourse has driven some local authorities to build monuments to Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, while the federal authorities have ceremoniously erected a monument to Vladimir the Great, who brought Orthodoxy to Kievan Rus.
The states are not regulated by the federal government; they are disciplined by the knowledge that no one will repay their debts for them.
When all else fails, Republicans seek to tie elected governments’ hands, in part by packing the federal courts with judges who can be counted on to strike down policies that their donors and supporters oppose.
To put that 4% of GDP in perspective, the federal government’s total revenue from the personal income tax is less than 9% of GDP, implying that nearly half is spent on these means-tested programs.
One important aspect of this is the movement of federally mandated expenses (ie, expenditures ordered by federal legislation but paid for by the regions) onto the federal budget.
This will no doubt cause the share of total government expenditures paid by Moscow to rise, but if federal funds cannot pay for something, the costs will no longer be shifted onto the backs of the regions.
The federal budget will subsidize this spending through lower tariffs on energy, heat, gas, and rail transport.
Just as US President Donald Trump was touting the accomplishments of his first 100 days in office, a federal court, responding to a legal complaint brought by several jurisdictions, temporarily blocked his executive order to strip federal funding from “sanctuary” states and cities.
In other words, states and cities may cooperate with the federal government by carrying out federal policies; but the Tenth Amendment provides the constitutional basis for them to challenge or resist federal policies that conflict with their own goals (in this case, shielding undocumented immigrants from arrest and possible deportation).
This is why most Americans have maintained their confidence in state and local governments, even as their trust in the federal government has reached all-time lows.
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