Which level of government aid has always been the larger contributor to local governments?
Who is the State government level? (almost always)
100
The amount of personal debt averaged for each person residing in the United States.
what is $60,000? S&W p. 100
100
This is known as the largest federal grant issued to state and local governments
What is Medicaid?, O, 191
100
These are the only two major tax bases that are shared between levels of govt.
What are personal income (st/fed) and sales (loc/st), O, 186
100
This is historically known as the “bread and butter” tax for localities.
What is the property tax? O, 242
200
These two types of states (characteristics) receive disproportionate shares of federal grants.
What are small and rich states?
200
This is the year in which TANF replaced AFDC, and the policy implication.
What is 1996, it was a capped block grant replacing an open-ended federal matching grant, also known for devolving greater authority to states in program design– O-p. 191
200
Federal pass thru funding to states for public welfare programs was greatest during which time period?
?a. 1870-1900
?b. 1900-1930
?c. 1930-1950
?d. 1950-1980
Answer c. Since that time, public welfare has become almost universally a state-administered service.
200
Three of the six states that do not provide any form of Municipal Home Rule in their Constitutions.
What are AL, ID, IN, MS, VA, VT (Online)
200
High income taxpayers
Who, according to S&W, benefit the most due to the tax system and reduction in individual income tax (S&W, 81)
300
Name of the longest running block grant to states and localities, and year implemented.
What is CDBG, 1974?
300
Since what decade in the 20th century has the fed govt always run budget deficits?
What is 1960s? O-182
300
This type of federal dominated tax has drastically declined over the last half century due to the mobility and globalization of businesses and competition.
What is corporate income tax, S&W 97
300
Problem with Medicaid that is increasing the states’ fiscal distress.
What is the matching requirement with Medicaid, based on state income per capita? O, 194-195
300
Cheeky label that has been provided to local governments as they have been forced to increasingly support themselves with own-source revenues, popular term in the Reagan era.
What is the “Shift and Shaft” ? O, 246
400
Percent of total highway spending from federal grants. ?O’Toole p. 196 - HINT
What is 127 Billion
400
The amount of the national debt in FY 2005
What is Almost $8.0 trillion - S&W, 99
400
Fed oversight has been eviscerated, and the number of contracted employees has grown larger than the number of actual government employees at this level due to this action.
What is the privatization of federal services? S&W 95
400
Otherwise known as the action by states in providing welfare benefits at a much lower level as compared to a national system
What is the “Race to the Bottom”, O, 193
400
These are two of the five leading issues affecting local govt finance today.
What are globalism, technological advances, deregulation, tax policy, & an aging population? O, Reading # 19 Brunori
500
This is by far the largest local govt expenditure component, comprising nearly 40% of total expenditures.
Primary and secondary education, O- 184
500
This is known as the first federal grant-in-aid program
What is The Northwest Ordinance, 1785, S&W, 84
500
The principle mechanism for enforcing mandates on state (and local) governments.
What are grants in aid? S&W 89
500
Counties, municipalities, and school districts.
What are the three major forms of local government? O, 186
500
Final Jeopardy Question:Influences of Cinema on Politics
The 1955 Popular Rodgers and Hammerstein musical drama that addressed public issues by claiming the “Farmer and the Cowman should be friends”