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Over the past decade, the electoral system was “improved” in such a way that no outcome can lead to a change in the federal government.
Time after time, Russian federal forces deliver devastating blows on Chechen insurgents.
Today, Russian federal forces are trying to separate common people from the bandits by entrusting the powers of self-government and security in Chechen settlements to indigenous Chechens.
Thus part of the federal forces must remain in Chechnya during any peace talks, which will also serve to strengthen the hand of those Chechens who choose to negotiate and are prepared to ensure the security of their settlements.
After 14 years of failed military intervention in Iraq, the US should recognize that “a unified, stable, democratic, and federal Iraq,” as a State Department spokesperson recently put it, is a chimera.
Moreover, China is the largest holder of US Treasury securities (aside from the Federal Reserve), has significant euro holdings, is likely soon to become America’s largest trade partner, and looms large in trade with many European and Asian economies.
In the US, it is the federal government that has been weak – even retrograde – in providing environmental leadership, while states such as California have led the way with higher standards.
President Barack Obama’s proposed alternative to the fiscal cliff would substantially increase tax rates and limit tax deductions for the top 2% of earners, who now pay more than 45% of total federal personal-income taxes.
The historical reference was to the moment in 1814 when underinvestment in the federal government's military capability allowed the British to seize Washington, DC, where they burned most official buildings, including the White House (and the Treasury and Congress).
But the broader point we were making is that, since the 1980s, the Republican Party’s approach to federal government finances changed.
What would really happen is this: The big tax cut would help relatively few people, while also cutting federal government revenue sharply.
With trade wars breaking out, growth would decline, not increase – and the federal government deficits would be huge.
Regional governors, ministers and other federal authorities were instructed to support these parties during the election campaigns as well as when counting the votes.
Given the morality of federal forces (or the lack thereof), Medvedev should have understood that such rhetoric could result only in a significant increase in brutality and extrajudicial killings all over the North Caucasus.
The cost is also the increase in net federal government debt held by the private sector – the most accurate measure of true government indebtedness.
The public losses are massive in comparison: roughly $6 trillion, if we limit ourselves just to the increase in federal government debt.
The federal government can currently borrow at record-low interest rates, and there are many projects in education, infrastructure, and research that would earn a higher return, create jobs now, and bolster US competitiveness in attracting high-wage jobs.
In fact, the federal deficit as a share of GDP will shrink significantly over the next several years, even without further deficit-reduction measures, before rising to unsustainable levels by 2030.
America must reform its tax code to raise revenue across a wider array of people and economic activity (half the US population pays no federal income tax, and the tax code either excludes or favorably treats many income sources).
As Stan Collender, a noted observer of the US federal budget, has commented, “No one with federal budget responsibilities actually seems to be interested in the budget.”
Since assuming office, President Barack Obama has made clear his desire to lift the federal ban on needle exchange in the United States.
International aid organizations, working with state and federal governments, should go beyond addressing the immediate causes of poverty to also develop long-term strategies for helping agricultural communities survive bad harvests.
Any plan must involve the pursuit of a stronger and more integrated Europe, though not necessarily a truly federal arrangement, which would be met with widespread popular resistance.
But the fourth explanation seems the simplest: America’s dysfunctional fiscal politics in 2011-2013 – years that featured the “fiscal cliff,” debt-ceiling standoffs, flirtation with federal default, a government shutdown, and budget sequesters.
The model for a future United States of Europe is Switzerland, a country with four languages and ethnicities, fiscally strong sub-national units (cantons), a single first-rate currency, and a federal government and a parliament that exercises genuine, if limited, fiscal authority.
And now, California is significantly expanding its earned income tax credit, CalEITC, building on the proven record of the federal earned income tax credit (EITC).
The federal EITC is a refundable tax credit available to low-income workers based on hours worked and how many children they have.
Kansas, by contrast, is one of a handful of states that still adheres to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Still, Trump and the Republican congressional leadership oppose any increase to the federal minimum wage, which puts them at odds with a majority of Americans.
The US simply does it though its federal defense budget – where outlays of close to $700 billion this year are more than the combined total earmarked for defense in China, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, France, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Germany.
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