While nearly everyone in the United States pays careful
attention to the federal government in Washington, it is the state
and local officials and bodies who are generally providing
education, protecting the environment, caring for AIDS patients,
financing affordable housing, and putting police and firefighters
on the streets. In this text, Henry Raimondo gives these local
governments some of the notice they are due, examining why state
and local public finance has assumed such an important role in
domestic fiscal policy matters. Traditional topics such as the
theories of taxation and intergovernmental grants are combined with
numerous overlooked subjects to reveal the dynamic and complex
nature of state and local government fiscal behavior.
Raimondo begins his text with a look at the relationship between
regional economic performance and state and local government
finance, and follows with a description of U.S. economic geography.
The organization of the public sector is outlined through a
discussion of the political and economic dimensions of the federal
system, and the guidelines for delegating services to different
levels of government. Among the other topics covered are methods
for financing elementary and secondary education that adjust for
regional economic differences; taxation in a federal system; state
and local taxes on property, sales, and personal income; user
charges and gambling revenues; and the actual beneficiaries of
state and local governments. The book concludes with an overview of
the grants-in-aid system and its effect on spending decisions.
Students of economics, urban studies, and political science will
find this work to be an invaluable resource, as will professionals
in public policy and planning.
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