Download or read book Earmaking Government Revenues Does It Work written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Earmarking Government Revenues written by W. A. McCleary and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic theory provides some justification for earmarking. But in practice it has proven difficult to set up earmarking mechanisms that are both efficient and independent, and governments often override earmarking arrangements when they need resources.

Download or read book Earmarking Government Revenues in Colombia written by W. A. McCleary and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reducing and rationalizing the earmarking of government funds will give Colombia's government more flexibility. The extent of earmarking could be sharply reduced by limiting its application to revenue- sharing between levels of government and to cases where the benefit applies.

Download or read book Budget Issues written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Budget Issues Earmarking in the Federal Government written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee asked that the General Accounting Office study the practice of earmarking federal revenues. As agreed with Committee staff, the objectives of GAO's study were to identify: (1) trends in earmarking and the features of earmarked revenues; (2) varying earmarking practices; and (3) factors for the Congress to consider when reviewing earmarking proposals. To identify trends in the use of earmarking, GAO examined annual governmental revenues at 3-year intervals from the end of fiscal year 1974 through fiscal year 1988. GAO used 1974 revenues as the starting point because that was the earliest year for which relevant data were available from OMB's budget tapes. Use of 3-year intervals permitted GAO to analyze major changes within the 14-year period and avoid temporary, year-to-year changes due to fluctuations in the economy. To identify the features of earmarked revenues, GAO examined these from four different perspectives: (1) their source (taxes or regulatory--"sovereign powers"--Revenues versus revenues from business-type operations); (2) the fund type (trust, special, general, etc.) to which they were applied; (3) the programs receiving the largest amounts; and (4) the agencies receiving the largest amounts. To identify varying earmarking practices, we (1) identified accounts where the earmarked amounts were cost-sharing payments from program participants and others where the earmarked amounts came from sources outside the program (not program participants) and (2) identified instances where the cost-sharing payments were earmarked for use by the programs and others where cost-sharing payments were deposited in Treasury's general fund. (KAR).

Download or read book The Pig Book written by Citizens Against Government Waste and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!

Download or read book The Case for Earmarked Taxes written by Ranjit S. Teja and published by Integra: The Association for Integrative. This book was released on 1991 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Earmarking State Taxes written by Martha A. Fabricius and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Earmarking Revenues for Public Works Projects written by Charles F. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Earmarking State Tax Revenues written by Joel Michael and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Constitutional Earmarking of State Tax Revenues written by Citizens Research Council of Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Earmarking Tax Revenues written by George R. Crowley and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're probably familiar with the earmarking of selective consumption taxes in your state--for example, gas tax revenues may be dedicated to highway funding. However, tax revenues don't always “stick” to the program that they're earmarked to. This chapter shows how earmarked taxes can serve to increase the size of state governments because funds can be moved from program to program. Key takeaways: (1) States may justify new revenue sources with the argument that they will fund worthy programs. A lottery may be implemented with the argument that its revenues will be used to increase education funding. (2) Every US state earmarks a percentage of its revenue. In 2005, Rhode Island earmarked just 4 percent of its revenue, compared to Alabama at 84 percent.

Download or read book Earmarking of State Revenues in Utah written by Utah Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Earmarking of Governmental Revenues in Utah written by Malcolm MacNiven Davisson and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Issue of Earmarking Tax Revenues written by Truman Mitchell Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Efficacy of Earmarking Revenues written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government funding of highway projects has long relied on earmarked (or dedicated) revenues from excise taxes on gasoline and other user fees such as tolls as a way to tie costs to users. The rationale for dedicating revenues for a single government program is to ensure that the desired program receives enough funds to carry out its mission without having to compete against more popular programs. But does it work? Do dedicated revenues increase overall spending levels? Under what conditions? In this paper I examine the effect of states earmarking policies on their overall highway spending across time, accounting for reliance on federal transportation payments as well as controlling for economic, political, and demographic factors and including state and year fixed effects. In particular, I examine how the earmarking of all motor fuel taxes for highways and of other funds affects the level of spending on highways. I find evidence for the full flypaper effect in states that dedicate all their motor fuel taxes to highways and also dedicate other funds to highways. I also find evidence of partial crowd-out of highway funds for states that only dedicate one or the other or neither. However, I find no evidence that earmarking policies insulate highway spending from the effects of poor economic conditions within state borders.

Download or read book Making Money Matter written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States annually spends over $300 billion on public elementary and secondary education. As the nation enters the 21st century, it faces a major challenge: how best to tie this financial investment to the goal of high levels of achievement for all students. In addition, policymakers want assurance that education dollars are being raised and used in the most efficient and effective possible ways. The book covers such topics as: Legal and legislative efforts to reduce spending and achievement gaps. The shift from "equity" to "adequacy" as a new standard for determining fairness in education spending. The debate and the evidence over the productivity of American schools. Strategies for using school finance in support of broader reforms aimed at raising student achievement. This book contains a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of financing public schools by federal, state, and local governments in the United States. It distills the best available knowledge about the fairness and productivity of expenditures on education and assesses options for changing the finance system.