All Publications by Sven Larson
  • Backgrounder posted May 15, 2008 by Sven Larson Federal Funds and State Fiscal Independence

    As President Ronald Reagan reminded the Ameri­can people in his 1981 inaugural address, the U.S. Constitution separates government powers so that the voters can hold government officials accountable. Gov­ernment power is separated both horizontally among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches and vertically among the federal, state, and local…