The Federation of American Scientists recently posted a copy of a report titled, “Major Disaster Declarations for Snow Assistance and Severe Winter Storms: An Overview.” The document was produced by the Congressional Research Service, an agency where I worked for a decade. The report is fascinating on a few counts. First, it likely will come […]
America’s Fiscal Health and Federalism
Today, the online version of The Weekly Standard published a short piece of mine titled, “Federalism, Anyone?” In it I suggest that the discussion of the nation’s finances ought to include the subject of federalism. Federalism, in short, raises basic questions of what the federal government should do, and what may be handled by state […]