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来源类型 | Research Report |
规范类型 | 报告 |
Fiscal Democracy in the States: How Much Spending Is on Autopilot? | |
Tracy Gordon; Megan Randall; C. Eugene Steuerle; Aravind Boddupalli | |
发表日期 | 2019-07-30 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | This report was corrected August 29, 2019, to correct a citation in box 7. Proposition 111, approved in California in 1990, was incorrectly cited as Proposition 11 with a year of 1991. Governors, lawmakers, and journalists often decry constitutional and statutory formulas, federal grant requirements, and court rulings they think excessively limit state budget decisions.Some observers estimate as much |
摘要 | This report was corrected August 29, 2019, to correct a citation in box 7. Proposition 111, approved in California in 1990, was incorrectly cited as Proposition 11 with a year of 1991. Governors, lawmakers, and journalists often decry constitutional and statutory formulas, federal grant requirements, and court rulings they think excessively limit state budget decisions. Some observers estimate as much as 70 percent of state spending is “on autopilot,” meaning these constraints are in place before proposals or negotiations begin. But measuring predetermined state budget commitments is far from straightforward. The federal government explicitly defines “tax expenditures” and “mandatory spending” and reinforces these concepts through the annual budget process. In contrast, few states rigorously and transparently assess the long-term cost of tax breaks and spending programs that are either fixed in size or will grow automatically without policy changes. In this report, we perform a first-of-its-kind analysis of how much spending was restricted or partially restricted in California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Virginia from 2000 to 2015. Key findings
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For additional details on data sources and methods, as well as supplemental state background, see the data appendix. |
主题 | Aging ; Economic Growth and Productivity ; Poverty, Vulnerability, and the Safety Net ; Taxes and Budget |
URL | https://www.urban.org/research/publication/fiscal-democracy-states-how-much-spending-autopilot |
来源智库 | Urban Institute (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/480677 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tracy Gordon,Megan Randall,C. Eugene Steuerle,et al. Fiscal Democracy in the States: How Much Spending Is on Autopilot?. 2019. |
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